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Date:      Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:01:28 +0930
From:      "Andrew D (Webzone)" <andrewd@webzone.net.au>
To:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...
Message-ID:  <48D1F5C0.6070502@webzone.net.au>
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Andrew Snow wrote:
> 
> Another thing that I believe would help: Voting on PRs.
> 
> Currently a maintainer has no idea if a PR is due to one guy's flakey 
> hardware or if 50 people have had the same problem and are waiting for a 
> fix.
> 
> For each major problem report, there are probably many people who tried 
> FreeBSD on particular hardware and just silently gave up when it failed.

You might even find that people don't even know what a PR is or how to 
report it.  Maybe a dialog during the install telling people about the 
PR system might be helpful.

> 
> Ability to "vote up" on a PR on the freebsd website would give 
> maintainers a tool to see which PRs are affecting the userbase.


Andrew

> 
> - Andrew
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