Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 01:23:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/41003: problem-reports: where to send questions Message-ID: <200207260823.g6Q8NTX99105@incinerator.seecolinslash.com>
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>Number: 41003
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: problem-reports: where to send questions
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jul 26 01:40:02 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Adam Weinberger
>Release: FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD smacky.vectors.cx 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #113: Wed Jul 24 12:13:03 PDT 2002 root@smacky.vectors.cx:/usr/src/sys/compile/smacky i386
>Description:
section 2 of the problem-reports article helps you differentiate between
when to send a pr and when not to, but doesn't tell you where to go
instead.
>How-To-Repeat:
doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.html#PR-WHEN
>Fix:
refer them to -questions. this requires bringing mailing-lists.ent
into the mix.
--- pr_questions_diff.patch begins here ---
--- /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.sgml.orig Fri Jul 26 00:49:12 2002
+++ /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.sgml Fri Jul 26 01:04:44 2002
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook V4.1-Based Extension//EN" [
<!ENTITY % man PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Manual Page Entities//EN">
%man;
+<!ENTITY % mailing-lists PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Mailing List Entities//EN">
+%mailing-lists;
]>
<article>
@@ -76,7 +78,9 @@
bug if it can be expressed as a question (usually of the form
<quote>How do I do X?</quote> or <quote>Where can I find
Y?</quote>). It is not always quite so black and white, but the
- question rule covers a large majority of cases.</para>
+ question rule covers a large majority of cases. If you are looking
+ for an answer, consider posing your question to the &a.questions;.
+ </para>
<para>Some cases where it may be appropriate to submit a problem
report about something that is not a bug are:</para>
--- pr_questions_diff.patch ends here ---
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