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Date:      Sat, 3 Jul 1999 08:18:03 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net>
To:        jmonroy@email.com
Cc:        asmodai@wxs.nl, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Unclearness of Re: docs/12487: ambigous reference
Message-ID:  <199907031318.IAA06230@mpp.pro-ns.net>
In-Reply-To: <990703081747GF.11117@webc01.globecomm.net> from "jmonroy@email.com" at "Jul 3, 1999 08:17:47 am"

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> ...

> >* thepinkpages@email.com (thepinkpages@email.com) [990702 22:47]:
> >> From the previous message you'll see
> >> that the reviewers(?) message was unclear.
> >
> >mpp's message was perfectly clear to me. He said that pr 12486 is like the
> >one you submitted and whatever the outcome of that one, it will also cover
> >this one.

(thanks whoever you are for your support, somehow I never saw your original 
reply, just this follow-up that I'm replying to   -Mike)

I didn't reply to this the first time around, but now I feel I have to...
I apologize in advance for anything I say in this message, I've been in a bad
mood since I saw my girlfriend off to another city a few days ago...


The specific case(s) that was/were mentioned in the PR I closed x also 
mentioned in PR 12486.  It was a duplicate PR.  Plain and simple.

>     Sorry, to report, if this was clear I
> would have not asked. I am not asking to
> start shit, you'll know when I'm starting
> shit (after you know me a while); I asked
> precisely because I did not know.

> 
>    Further the last reponse, now posted
> on freebsd-doc indicates the reviewer
> does not intend to take the issue
> seriously. You'll see I have.
> The new PRs have scripts to reproduce
> the errors and reproduce the fixes.

I take all on-line documentation problems seriously.  I've already fixed some
of the problems even before they entered the bug tracking system.
I started looking into this when Jesus originally sent a message to
the freebsd-doc mailing list.  I fixed some of the easy problems right away,
and I'm still working on the hard cases.

>     One of the problems is the the 
> remapping/renaming of certain utilities. 

Those are the hard cases :-(
  
> Although now I see the PRs have move.
> I need sleep as well, so if you don't 
> mind I'll pick this up tommorrow.
> 
> >> Further, this message is less clear.
> >
> >You are right, this message you wrote is less clear.
> >
> >> Apparently, the PR has changed states,
> >> as per the reviewer(?). However the
> >> response document is unclear, terse
> >> and confusing.
> >
> >The response is clear, precise and to point, not distracting from the issue
> >and whatever information needed to get the point across (too bad about the
> >typo though, but that's nitpicking).

I agree.  I always try to be clear and to the point on these type
of messages.  I also noticed the typo, but GNATS doesn't let you
enter an editor to fix it up :-(.  I was thinking nobody would notice.
Busted....

-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@FreeBSD.ORG or mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net


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