Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 11:25:14 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CFD: additions to the PR submission article Message-ID: <20050411092513.GB71160@eddie.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504102250320.29887-100000@pancho> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504102250320.29887-100000@pancho>
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--uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2005.04.10 22:56:48 -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: > Unless there are any objections I intend to commit these changes once > the freeze is lifted. Looks good to me, except a few style issues, as noted below. > Index: article.sgml > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > RCS file: /home/FreeBSD/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports= /article.sgml,v > retrieving revision 1.36 > diff -u -r1.36 article.sgml > --- article.sgml 15 Jan 2005 02:16:42 -0000 1.36 > +++ article.sgml 11 Apr 2005 03:53:25 -0000 [...] > + <listitem> > + <para>Individual applications that are not in the base system > + but are instead part of the &os; Ports Collection (category > + <literal>ports</literal>). Most of these applications are > + not written by &os; developers; what &os; provides is merely > + a framework for installing the application. Therefore, you > + should only report a problem to the &os; developers when you > + believe the problem is &os;-specific; otherwise, you should > + report it to the authors of the software.</para> > + </listitem> > + No need for an empty line here. > + </itemizedlist> > + > + <para>Then you should ascertain whether or not the problem is > + timely. There are few things This line could be made longer. > + that will annoy a developer more than receiving a problem report > + about a bug she has already fixed.</para> > + > + <para>If the problem is in the base system, you should first read > + the FAQ section on > + <ulink url=3D"&url.books.faq;/introduction.html#LATEST-VERSION"> > + &os; versions</ulink>, if you are not already familiar with > + the topic. It is not possible for &os; to fix problems in > + anything other than certain recent branches of the base system, > + so filing a bug report about an older version will probably > + only result in a developer advising you to upgrade to a > + supported version to see if the problem still recurs. The > + Security Officer team maintains the > + <ulink url=3D"http://www.freebsd.org/security/">list of supported s/freebsd.org/FreeBSD.org/ - there are some entities that might be used (url.base) but I'm actually not really sure if that would fit here... --=20 Simon L. Nielsen --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCWkJ5h9pcDSc1mlERAnSmAJ4mXdQYVj6w4xBV6EjnMz64Efgm1wCgu/hu AI2kcWizxECGDvaxJsDYDvY= =Znkk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm--
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