From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 28 9: 3:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp012.mail.yahoo.com (smtp012.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8420337B417 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:03:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from jlboss (AUTH poptime) at ?@.aging.cpaaa.org (HELO there) (165.201.71.250) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Feb 2002 16:41:59 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Justin L. Boss" Reply-To: jlboss@yahoo.com To: Cliff Sarginson , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making suggestions Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:45:23 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <33993602@toto.iv> <15485.38830.961741.750404@guru.mired.org> <20020228055910.GC3311@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020228055910.GC3311@raggedclown.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020228170340.8420337B417@hub.freebsd.org> 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 FREEBSD-BINUP FreeBSD Binary Update Project This list exists to provide discussion for the binary update system, or binup. Design issues, implementation details, patches, bug reports, status reports, feature requests, commit logs, and all other things related to binup are fair game. This is off the web site at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL I'm thinking this might be the place that we are looking for (feature requests...). Let me know whar you think. On Wednesday 27 February 2002 11:59 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > 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). _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message