From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 11 06:18:52 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF0216A4CE for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 06:18:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A96443D58 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 06:18:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E355CE7; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 02:18:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 88901-05; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 02:18:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96D605C58; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 02:18:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <425A16C9.1000900@mac.com> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 02:18:49 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Linimon References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CFD: additions to the PR submission article X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 06:18:52 -0000 Mark Linimon wrote: [ ... ] > Unless there are any objections I intend to commit these changes once > the freeze is lifted. Yay! These changes strike me as very good. > + > + Code in the base system that is written and maintained > + by others, and imported into &os; and adapted. Examples > + include bind, &man.gcc.1;, and > + &man.sendmail.8;. Most bugs in these areas should be reported > + to the &os; developers; but in some cases they may need to be > + reported to the original authors instead if the problems are > + not &os;-specific. Usually these bugs will fall under either > + the bin or gnu > + categories. > + Perhaps we could add a comment here requesting that the user try to test whether the problem happens on another platform. If the problem only shows up on FreeBSD, the user should definitely report it to the &os developers. If the problem is reproducable on other platforms, the user should definitely report it to the original authors, and maybe CC: the &os developers. -- -Chuck