GDTF share showing considerably less manufacturers

[saajjj]

Hi all,

The share section is showing a severely reduced number of manufacturers (I don't have any filters enabled). Has there been a cull of sorts?

Thanks

[DanyAtCAST]

Any thoughts here? @Moderator? @Petr Vanek? (Sorry, casting a wide net.)

 

[Petr Vanek - Robe]

@saajjj and @DanyAtCAST,

sorry for a later reply and Happy new year! ?

Yes, this is intentional. There has been an ongoing effort to clean up the share and to provide much better moderation tools to GDTF authors and device manufacturers, giving them better tools and workflow. This includes a concept of WIP (work in progress), which allows them to hide unfinished work. At the same time, all files have been marked as WIP, because of the huge amount of testing files. Files authors now can (and must) mark the files as "released" to be available.

Do note, that prior to this we had tried contacting many authors with questions about the state of their files and also we asked (many) to remove testing files, with a very limited success.

Based on a response of authors and manufacturers, this share update has been a necessary and positive step forward.

Hope this helps,

Cheers

Petr