From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 6 00:55:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C494416A4CE; Fri, 6 May 2005 00:55:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from asclepius.uwa.edu.au (asclepius3.uwa.edu.au [130.95.128.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3255D43D91; Fri, 6 May 2005 00:55:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au) Received: from asclepius.kas (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asclepius.uwa.edu.au (Postfix) with SMTP id 00DF5184144; Fri, 6 May 2005 08:55:55 +0800 (WST) Received: from asclepius (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asclepius.prekas (Postfix) with SMTP id E416C183FDC; Fri, 6 May 2005 08:55:54 +0800 (WST) X-UWA-Client-IP: 130.95.13.9 (UWA) Received: from mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [130.95.13.9]) by asclepius.input (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C8E184110; Fri, 6 May 2005 08:55:54 +0800 (WST) Received: by mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Postfix, from userid 801) id AF23117F1F; Fri, 6 May 2005 08:55:53 +0800 (WST) Received: from mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [130.95.13.18]) by mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D89517F1A; Fri, 6 May 2005 08:55:52 +0800 (WST) Received: from zanchey (helo=localhost) by mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au with local-esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DTr8C-0001eC-00; Fri, 06 May 2005 08:55:52 +0800 Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 08:55:52 +0800 (WST) From: David Adam To: Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu In-Reply-To: <1115337385.0@it.buh.tecnik93.com> Message-ID: References: <1115337385.0@it.buh.tecnik93.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Formal (236/050427) X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Detect Hard [UCS 290904] X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: SysLog X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Marking Spam - Subject (UCS) [02-08-04] X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 2.0.0 [0125], KAS/Release cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org cc: FreeBSD gnats submit Subject: Re: docs/80681: articles/problem-reports: don't tell people they should sumbit a PR each time they see an outdated port X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 00:55:56 -0000 On Fri, 6 May 2005, Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote: > --- problem-reports_article.sgml.diff begins here --- > --- doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.sgml.orig Fri May 6 02:41:02 2005 > +++ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.sgml Fri May 6 02:48:55 2005 > @@ -106,7 +106,15 @@ > Notification of updates to externally maintained > software (mainly ports, but also externally maintained base > system components such as BIND or various GNU > - utilities). > + utilities). In ports case there are 2 possibilities: the port > + has no maitainer (MAINTAINER=ports@freebsd.org) in which case > + if your PR doesn't contain a patch there are not many chances > + somebody will stand up and do it) or the port is maintained, > + in which case either the maintainer already knows about the > + update and for various reasons (no time, there's a problem in > + the new version, etc.) he hasn't submitted an update yet or if > + he doesn't know you should always try first to contact him > + directly and fill a PR only if you get no timle respose This sentence could, well, use some work. Why not just "If you are reporting a new version of a port, try to contact the port's maintainer first."? Cheers, David Adam zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au