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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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On Sun, 12 Jan 2014, Warren Block wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Jan 2014, FreeBSD@nagilum.org wrote:
>
>> as Edwin pointed out to me recently 
>> (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=185680) the "Class:" of a new 
>> port should be "change-request". It would be good to mention this on 
>> "porters-handbook/porting-submitting.html".
>
> But it already says that:
>
>  "Be sure to classify the bug report as category ports and class
>   change-request (Do not mark the report confidential!)."

The language in that section was inconsistent in how it described PR 
field names.  There were paragraphs straining at the seams, too.  I 
unleashed my +3 Hammer of Editing on it, hopefully with some 
improvement.