From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 20 12:16:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 127A937B405 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:16:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA6BBCFE; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:16:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA10990; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:16:11 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAKKEHi74160; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:14:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Marcus Reid Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug reporting integrated into the ports tree References: <20011120035859.A12914@blazingdot.com> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 20 Nov 2001 12:14:16 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20011120035859.A12914@blazingdot.com> 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-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > http://lwn.net/2001/1115/letters.php3 got me thinking.. Wouldn't > a little bug-reporting facility integrated into the ports tree > be extremely useful? Well, of course we have send-pr(1) (those with appropriately configured mail systems) and http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#gnats which do most of that, if more awkwardly. A cross-platform system is needed for the many things not maintained by FreeBSD people. Bug report systems which require an e-mail address will loose some bug reports from rabid spam haters and privacy extremists, but maybe it's worth it -- who can say? I've been wondering if a Wiki-type system wouldn't be valueable as a semi-official FreeBSD system as on option for the easist possible reporting of bugs and also for adding documentation. Unfortunately, it would require some volunteers to process the information into real PRs and documents and to restore vandalized Wiki pages (which doesn't seem to be a big problem on Wikis, but I'm no Wike expert). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message