From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 28 21:55:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E31C106566B; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:55:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1ADE8FC1B; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:55:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from segfault-nmh-helo.tristatelogic.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DB72BDC35; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:55:22 -0700 (PDT) To: Mark Linimon In-Reply-To: <20101028100643.GC393@lonesome.com> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:55:22 -0700 Message-ID: <839.1288302922@tristatelogic.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: Jaakko Heinonen , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/96157: Subtle incompatability of FreeBSD and LITE-ON SOHW-1673s drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:55:23 -0000 In message <20101028100643.GC393@lonesome.com>, you wrote: >On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 04:25:21PM +0300, Jaakko Heinonen wrote: >> I am sorry but I don't think that we can realistically expect developers >> to go through such hoops to just reach a PR submitter. Thus by closing >> the PR I will also save time of the next person trying to contact the >> submitter. > >I'm going to have to side with Jaakko on this one. Due to the sheer >number of PRs that we receive, we simply can't take tens of minutes, or >hours, on all of them. (For the past several years we have only been >able to keep the total number of PRs from rising too much.) jh@ and others >have been doing great work to try to prune the stale ones, so that we can >more easily see the others. > >I sympathise with the OP about having to have all the anti-spam measures >in place; I've had my email address for over 10 years now and have tried >various combinations of razor wire, boiling oil, and so forth. But the >reality is that if we're getting 60+ PRs/day, not every one is going to >get the time it deserves. Actually, looking back at the mailing list archives, it appears to me that perhaps Jaakko sent me an e-mail saying "Is this still a problem for you?" and then (my bad) I failed to respond in a timely manner. In short, it appears ot me that there was not any problem with e-mail at all... just a slight mixup here. Anyway, as regards ot the LITE-ON drive and the problems I had with it, I really can't easily test that anymore, becaes that drive was pulled from one of my systems when it proved to be essentially FreeBSD-incompatible. And alas, I really don;t have time to reinstall that anytime in the next 30 days for testing. So in short, it is OK by me if the PR gets closed.