Date: 1 Jul 99 01:16:21 PDT From: Jesus Monroy <jesus.monroy@usa.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: My FreeBSD Experience ]]]]]] Message-ID: <19990701081621.16510.qmail@www0a.netaddress.usa.net>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> wrote:
> > I guess you want me to resort to that retarted'pr' system
> > for reporting bugs. Albeit the current defacto standard,
> > my posting was noted and correct by the documentation
> > team in less than 48hrs. Why so soon? Can't tell you,
> > ask them.
> =
> That's "retarded 'pr' system". My guess as to the speed is that
> it's a result of sending email instead of using the 'pr' system.
> =
> For what it's worth, I can't get the 'sendpr' stuff to work from
> my freebsd box behind the corporate firewall because it's
> apparently overly anal about reverse DNS.
> =
The system needs a revision, but unfortunaly I took
a vow of silence for the next seven days.
We can pick this up then, if you like.
> > Currently, errors in the documentation are constantly
> > creeping in because fixes (or changes) are made
> > to the base utility set, or the parts they =
> > use (ie. command-line flags). This in turn does
> > not get commited to documentataion until the =
> > documentation error is reported or the programmer
> > who may the (possible) error figures this out.
> > =
> > In any case, it's a real lack of communication
> > between the documentation team, the core team
> > or freebsd-hackers in general.
> > =
> > Where is the root of the problem? I don't know.
> > Can this be solved? I don't know.
> > Well this problem continue to manifest itself
> > at irregular times and without warning?
> > Yes, it's a real daemon.
> =
> It's possible to resolve. The engineering technique is called
> "literate programming". There was apparently a nice talk about
> it at Usenix, with someone building a kernel using the technique
> to allow them to publish an example.
> =
There are many solutions. But again on 7 day hold.
---
"I'd rather pay for my freedom than live in a bitmapped, =
pop-up-happy dungeon like NT."
http://www.performancecomputing.com/features/9809of1.shtml
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