From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 26 06:32:43 2003 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 1357637B401 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 06:32:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3447C43FAF for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 06:32:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mobile.pittgoth.com (acs-24-154-229-196.zoominternet.net [24.154.229.196]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h3QDWdZK055186; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 09:32:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:22:37 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes To: Murray Stokely Message-Id: <20030425212237.3f333f1d.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030426081843.GW394@freebsdmall.com> References: <20030426081843.GW394@freebsdmall.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help close a doc PR! 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: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 13:32:43 -0000 On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 01:18:43 -0700 Murray Stokely wrote: > The number of open documentation PRs is growing uncomfortably large. > It wasn't that long ago (well, a few years) that we had about 30 open > PRs but now we're over 175. I remember back when we only had about 100. Its difficult to keep up, yo. > > If you're a contributor and are looking for a way to help out the doc > project, then please post follow-ups to the PRs with your opinions on > any patches that have been posted, or create a patch if a problem is > described with no fix. Now where are those two protege's? hmmmmm. > > And committers can of course help out by committing some of the many > PRs that have patches attached. Granted, many need a little bit of > work -- you can fix it up yourself or reply to the PR and have the > submitted fix it up. Either way, we've got to get a handle on all of > these PRs. It's hard to wade through it all when there is this many. We're buried! > > Of course, it's really a good thing that we've got this many people > working on and spotting problems in the documentation, but still, it > would be nice to focus on resolving many of these open issues that > have been brought up recently. True, we like help. :) > > I'll buy a beer at the next BSD Conference for everyone who closes > more PRs than me in the next 2 weeks. ;) > ... You don't know what it is that you have just done... FEAR! :) -- Tom Rhodes