From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 10 5: 6:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D98C14C92 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 05:05:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA16282; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:05:24 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA68829; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:05:18 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:05:17 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Brett Glass Cc: Brett Taylor , wes@softweyr.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: volunteering (was Re: Ports) Message-ID: <19990310140517.A68675@bitbox.follo.net> References: <4.1.19990309142131.00ca2cc0@localhost> <4.1.19990309194523.04046c40@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990309194523.04046c40@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 08:04:22PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 08:04:22PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > >All of us have spent time actually working on making FreeBSD better. > > So have I, but only on the systems that I myself maintain. My attempts > to contribute that code back have not been met with a warm reception. > I hope you can understand why, after two or three attempts, I've been > discouraged. We have a serious problem with this. I'm not sure how to handle it - the answer might be to change to having a hierarchy of PR systems, with the maintainers of the "lower level" ones able to shift PRs to the system "above" them, and some form of policy of "patches go in unless there are specific reasons why they shouldn't go in". It isn't certain that the above would work, either, but it seems pretty clear that the present "problem report" handling discourage a lot of contributors. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message