From owner-cvs-all Sun Apr 12 22:54:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA11705 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 22:54:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA11699; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 22:54:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA05714; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 22:54:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Chuck Robey cc: Nate Williams , Poul-Henning Kamp , committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: PRs in suspended state In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 12 Apr 1998 21:51:41 EDT." Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 22:54:37 -0700 Message-ID: <5711.892446877@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Do you have a suggestionj as to what to do with PRs that haven't > anything to do with software that is part of the FreeBSD tree? I'm > specifically referring to the PRs on ports stuff, where the complaint > isn't about the port per se, but about the operation of the software > that the port correctly installs. Such things are, IMO, even more > unprofessional, because they *can't* be fixed ... no method of closing > such PRs. It seemed to me that putting things in the suspend state was > a nice compromise. Such PRs should be closed with a note that it's not a FreeBSD specific problem and that the original author or maintainer (who's contact details should be attached if they're readily available) should be contacted instead. I think it's the only reasonably effective compromise. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message