Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 16:38:17 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Subject: Re: Efficacy of PR's [was Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD] Message-ID: <20101207153849.W61647@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <4CFD7C9E.8080209@freebsd.org> References: <E1PPkj6-000Fz3-1b@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> <4CFD7C9E.8080209@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 07/12/2010 01:44 Pete French said the following: > >> Apparently you've been born with a silver spoon or something :-) > > > > ...more likely an ability to irritate people until it gets fixed ;-) > > That's exactly the reason why I said "unless the reporter also actively pursues > it" :-) > > Because as my experience shows most of the unresolved PRs are of > fire-and-forget[*] kind. > > [*] forget - unless some developer for some reason starts bugging the reporter, > but that's an unnatural order of things :-) Well in that case, I'm most impressed by the swathe of unnatural acts you've been performing on mostly old [acpi] PRs the last few days :) Seriously though, your view on this is encouraging; I was starting to suspect that the reason nobody's yet commented on my '60 second stall resuming Thinkpad T23 on 8.x - regression' post the other day was that I hadn't yet filed a PR on it .. but I tried here first precisely because I've really no idea whether it's a kern, acpi or maybe net/fxp issue, and neither, I suspect, would whoever had to assign it to somewhere. cheers, Ian
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