From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Aug 12 0:59:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 060F337B400; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 00:59:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7890143E6A; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 00:59:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from pc-17 (dyn205.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.205]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 00:59:09 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: freeBSD-ports@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 00:59:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Can I ask a question here? Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: Anders Nordby In-reply-to: <20020812074945.GB92384@totem.fix.no> References: <20020812074134328.AAA285@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Message-ID: <20020812075909271.AAA186@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 12 Aug 2002 at 9:49, Anders Nordby boldly uttered: > Hello, > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 12:41:32AM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > I just joined this list because I thought I could ask a ports-related > > question, but it seems to be mostly formatted messages about port > > commits. > > > > Is it appropriate to ask questions here? I have a problem with the > > mutt port, and didn't get any response either from the maintainer or > > freebsd-questions. > > It's perfectly OK to ask a question here! :) Much of ports activity does > however happen in PRs (Problem Reports) - people submitting bugfixes, > requests, new ports, and the work on this, etc. Don't let this scare > you, it's just an organized way of doing many ports related things. > > Cheers, > > -- > Anders. Thanks very much Anders, my question will follow with a new Subject header.. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message