Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 07:20:07 GMT From: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/80681: articles/problem-reports: don't tell people they should sumbit a PR each time they see an outdated port Message-ID: <200505070720.j477K7gE054241@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/80681; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com>
Cc: FreeBSD gnats submit <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>,
freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/80681: articles/problem-reports: don't tell people they
should sumbit a PR each time they see an outdated port
Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 15:10:12 +0800 (WST)
> > Why not just "If you are reporting a new version of a port, try to contact
> > the port's maintainer first."?
>
> So that I don't see PR but post on ports@ ? Well, it will be an
> improvement, at least no one will have to close them.
I have two primary problems with the proposed patch
- It's poorly written. This can be fixed.
- The general message that it gives is not one I think is beneficial. We
should be trying to remove barriers for people to report problems, not
institute them.
I can understand that you want to reduce the amount of waffle in the PR
database, but I think your proposed change is too complicated and too
negative.
Now, I am not a committer nor subscribed to ports@, but surely hitting the
Delete key once or twice a week more often is not that huge a price to
pay?
I propose that this patch be shortened to:
--- article.sgml.orig 2005-01-15 10:16:42.000000000 +0800
+++ article.sgml 2005-05-07 15:07:06.622424000 +0800
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@
<para>Notification of updates to externally maintained
software (mainly ports, but also externally maintained base
system components such as BIND or various GNU
- utilities).</para>
+ utilities). If you are reporting a new version of a
+ port, try contacting the port's maintainer first.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
David Adam
zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
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