Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:57:39 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Yest one more: devel/crosssco Message-ID: <6654.891388659@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Mar 1998 16:00:00 PST." <XFMail.980331160000.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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> I agree. The way I viewed it (obviously mistaken here) is that a developer > of a package can look at the output and suggest a course of action. Yes, you were unfortunately mistaken. A given developer _can_ look at the output and suggest a course of action, but far more frequently doesn't have time to actually do so and hence your approach is one that generates too low of a rate of return for the effort expended. A failure report _with_ an attached diff to fix it, implying a far more in-depth analysis of the error, at least, even if the fix turns out to be incorrect, is what will most effectively catch the attention of the overworked developers we have these days. > Instead I got a (useful) lecture on how out of date my system is. Yeah, well, that's what happens when you take the wrong approach - people pick out whatever requires the least work in your message to respond to. :-) Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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