Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:09:08 -0500 From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: ports@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Cc: bugmeister@FreeBSD.org Subject: [REMINDER] how to get the best use out of GNATS Message-ID: <20070320010908.GA4781@soaustin.net>
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Recently the bugbusting team has been seeing a few cases where PRs are being submitted without a clear understanding of how best to do so. Although there is a document that references this*, please let me reiterate a few points: - Please only send one PR for a particular problem. The mail queue and spam filtering take ~10 minutes to run (more if your address is greylisted) so you will not see an immediate email reply or update on the website. Please wait a few hours before assuming that something has gone wrong; if you think it has, please email bugmeister@ and we will look at it. - Your email address has to have a valid reverse lookup to be accepted. If the machine you are submitting from does not have this, please acquire and use a free email account such as foo@yahoo.com. - Your email address will be public (in the database). If you do not want this, please use a free email account. - If your email bounces, it is much less likely that someone is going to be able to contact you if they need futher information about your problem. - Please trim replies when following-up. The database already has a copy. - Please do not use HTML mail. The GNATS spam-filters are set up to assume that such mail is spam. They are almost always correct. - Do not use content-type/quoted-printable. This will merely scramble your patches into unusability. - Remember, your submissions are going into a database, so any email mangling is undesireable. - Submissions of more than 500k are quarantined as possible spam. If your patch (or traceback) are that large, please consider posting them somewhere on the web and just submitting a URL. - The category for all ports is 'ports', not 'www' if your port is 'www/foo', nor 'misc' if your port is 'misc/bar'. This affects the automated systems that assign and track PRs. - In fact, the 'misc' category is almost always wrong. Its only legitimate uses are for a few things such as build infrastructure and boot loader code. If your problem is with the base system, it is almost certainly either kern or bin (unless you think it is particular to a processor or motherboard, in which case it is i386/amd64/etc.). Thanks. Mark Linimon, for the bugbusting team *http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.html
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