From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 16: 2:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C630537B405 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:02:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC14BD37; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:02:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06016; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:02:23 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAL00TV74213; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:00:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/ports/shells/ksh93 References: <9tedjp$31cl$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 20 Nov 2001 16:00:26 -0800 In-Reply-To: <9tedjp$31cl$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) writes: > Maybe the maintainer knows? But hey, why ask the one guy most > likely to know when you can instead address hundreds or thousands > of people who probably don't? Interesting. And suprising to me, but I guess it makes some sense and the ports section Handbook (4.3.2) does say to contact the maintainer first, then write a PR. Where do you think -questions and -ports should be mentioned in the Handbook's list of ways to deal with seemingly broken ports, if anywhere? (They're not in there now.) I think many people have an instinctive hesitation to bother a maintainer or developer about things and interrupt their important work and would rather bother other "users". We forget that many (most?) read these lists too. Should the Handbook (and man pages?) give people warmer feelings about dealing directly with people, than with "the system"? But wasn't "the system" created to insulate you from direct initial contact with users? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message