From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 20 3:59: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from zork.punq.net (punq.net [207.154.84.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4F9C37B417 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 03:58:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12933 invoked by uid 1000); 20 Nov 2001 11:58:59 -0000 Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 03:58:59 -0800 From: Marcus Reid To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Bug reporting integrated into the ports tree Message-ID: <20011120035859.A12914@blazingdot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Coffee-Level: high Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi: A letter from Seth LaForge seen at http://lwn.net/2001/1115/letters.php3 got me thinking.. Wouldn't a little bug-reporting facility integrated into the ports tree be extremely useful? It seems to me that he makes a couple of excellent points. The reporting of little bugs is often too much of a pain for most end-users of software to vigilantly report the bugs that affect them. I think it might be of benefit to a lot of projects if users could simply cd /usr/ports/some/crapplication && make bugreport. -- Marcus Reid Blazingdot "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message