Date: 14 Oct 2001 14:18:06 -0700 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: PRs on non-FreeBSD software. Message-ID: <p14rp1or8x.rp1@localhost.localdomain>
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From recent personal experience, it seems that PRs on "non-FreeBSD software" is more-or-less rejected out of hand with instructions to report the problem somewhere else, which sometimes, depending on the tact exercised by the PR handler and the sensitivity of the PR originator, may seem a rude and ungrateful response (and the filing of the PR may seem a waste of time) which tends to discourage problem reporting to FreeBSD and other software maintainers. I suppose that PR originators should read the "author" section of relevant man pages and be able to guess the maintainer some of the time, but this could be handled better. It would be nice if each man page clearly indicated who the maintainers are, but that seems impractical. Would it be worthwhile to have a new web page linked from under http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#gnats which lists either the stuff not appropriate for a FreeBSD PR or the stuff appropriate for a FreeBSD PR? The page would also be referenced from the handbook. Maybe of the form: "PRs should be filed only on programs (and related documentation wherever it resides) under /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, except: <...list...> and programs under /usr/local and any of the packages or ports except <...list...>". The new page would also have some clues to reporting non-FreeBSD PRs, etc, etc. I foresee a problem here regarding ports with patches. I don't know a good way to handle it except to mention it on the same new page. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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