From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 27 21:59:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E965537B41A for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:59:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 16gJb2-0007S2-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 05:59:16 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 9BCE413040 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:59:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 5141A225C1; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:59:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:59:10 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making suggestions Message-ID: <20020228055910.GC3311@raggedclown.net> References: <33993602@toto.iv> <15485.38830.961741.750404@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15485.38830.961741.750404@guru.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:36:30PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Justin L. Boss types: > > Does anyone know how someone would go about making suggestions to BIN. Do > > they read this list? I have some suggestion like changing the code it ps to > > except the $ as a valid character. This would make the adduser script in > > samba easer to write making FreeBSD more appealing to people. It would be so > > nice not to have to do it manually every time. I have other ideas that I > > think would make FreeBSD more appealing to newbies. Maybe I need to keep my > > opinions to myself but FreeBSD is the best OS out their and since I'm not a > > greatest coder in the world I would like to help in some small way. > > The way to suggest enhancements, report bugs, etc. is with the > "send-pr" command. You can make suggestions with it like you did > here. If you have working code to do what you want, submit a patchfile > with the pr and put [PATCH] at the start of the synopsys line. > > Read the send-pr manual page for more information. > I got a different answer to this question a while ago, that said that the "team" did not all like PR's being used for "suggestions". I have several (like getting rid of F77 from /usr/bin for example, why it is there is a mystery to me). -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message