From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 20 12:43:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C6C37B41B for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:43:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from jonc.itouch ([192.168.2.21]) by itouch.co.nz with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 166Hjc-0000Sw-00; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:43:12 +1300 Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.itouch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAKKhCN86374; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:43:12 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:43:12 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug reporting integrated into the ports tree Message-ID: <20011121094312.A86329@jonc.itouch> References: <20011120035859.A12914@blazingdot.com> <20011121085834.C85915@jonc.itouch> <15354.48705.154268.123909@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15354.48705.154268.123909@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:34:09PM -0600 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 On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:34:09PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Jonathan Chen types: > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:58:59AM -0800, Marcus Reid wrote: > > > Hi: > > > > > > A letter from Seth LaForge seen at > > > 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? > > > > That's what send-pr(1) is for. > > Except send-pr isn't the right tool use for reporting bugs with > ports. They should go to the port maintainer. In the cases where > that's ports@freebsd.org, send-pr works. Otherwise, it's wrong. Well, I'm of the opinion that it should go into the generic bug database. In most cases, the ports-people then reassigns it to the maintainer. In some cases, they find out that the port-maintainer has disappeared, and can reassign or find a a new maintainer. It's also easier to track bug-reports in a central location for everyone that's interested, rather than have the maintainer answer tons of small email. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If everything's under control, you're going too slow" - Mario Andretti To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message