Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:50:36 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug reporting integrated into the ports tree Message-ID: <15354.49692.861105.524846@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20011121094312.A86329@jonc.itouch> References: <20011120035859.A12914@blazingdot.com> <20011121085834.C85915@jonc.itouch> <15354.48705.154268.123909@guru.mired.org> <20011121094312.A86329@jonc.itouch>
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Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> types: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:34:09PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> types: > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:58:59AM -0800, Marcus Reid wrote: > > > > Hi: > > > > A letter from Seth LaForge <sethml@ofb.net> seen at > > > > http://lwn.net/2001/1115/letters.php3 got me thinking.. Wouldn't > > > > a little bug-reporting facility integrated into the ports tree > > > > be extremely useful? > > > That's what send-pr(1) is for. > > Except send-pr isn't the right tool use for reporting bugs with > > ports. They should go to the port maintainer. In the cases where > > that's ports@freebsd.org, send-pr works. Otherwise, it's wrong. > > Well, I'm of the opinion that it should go into the generic bug database. > In most cases, the ports-people then reassigns it to the maintainer. > In some cases, they find out that the port-maintainer has disappeared, > and can reassign or find a a new maintainer. I'm not familiar with gnats, so I don't know if it can deal with the case of assigning a problem to someone who isn't a committer. Since such people problably don't monitor the bugs database, it also needs to send them an email notice when a bug is assigned to them. If those two things work properly, all that's needed is for someone monitoring the ports mail list to step forward and do the assignment, instead of recommending that people send problem reports to the maintainer. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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