From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Sep 12 21:59:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4FB037B424; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:59:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA22047; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:59:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:59:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Francisco Reyes Cc: "billf@FreeBSD.ORG" , Stan Osborne , "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: advocacy/21238: poor performance; missed opportunities In-Reply-To: <200009130431.AAA32671@sanson.reyes.somos.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 19:34:34 -0700 (PDT), Stan Osborne wrote: > > >Ok take it that way. Go ahead and close the PR without ever > >consulting the person who submitted it in the first place. > > I am very sad to report that I had a simmilar experience in > terms of a PR in the not so distant past. > It is as if there is a quota of how many PRs need to be handled > or as if they want to keep the number of open PRs to a certain > level. No, but it is a true statement that there are more PRs than the few FreeBSD users willing to investigate and follow up on them have time to handle, despite the best efforts of several people to keep the database in check. Moreover, checking PR 20939, to which I assume you refer, I think sheldon was justified in closing it, because there's nothing which anyone can realistically do based on the information you provided there ("it doesnt boot"). Basically, that PR looks like one of any number of others which only say "I tried to install FreeBSD on my machine and it didnt work" with the solution usually being "hardware problem" or "user error". Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message