From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 18 06:41:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 132721065673 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:41:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=ANxwUw=Z4=webzone.net.au=andrewd@smtp.webzone.net.au) Received: from smtp.webzone.net.au (smtp.webzone.net.au [210.8.36.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B8D8FC12 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:41:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=ANxwUw=Z4=webzone.net.au=andrewd@smtp.webzone.net.au) Received: from ws.webzone.net.au ([203.57.204.252]) by smtp.webzone.net.au with esmtpa (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1KgD33-000MNC-Gp for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:01:29 +0930 Message-ID: <48D1F5C0.6070502@webzone.net.au> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:01:28 +0930 From: "Andrew D (Webzone)" Organization: Webzone Internet User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable References: <1219409496.10487.22.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <593618A3-56DA-4891-A4A0-690E9A9C5B32@netconsonance.com> <20080904133604.GB1188@atarininja.org> <47d0403c0809051319r3c82f87bhdb15ce5b0167987a@mail.gmail.com> <2742CAB1-8FF2-425D-A3B6-0658D7DB8F4D@netconsonance.com> <0C2C7E9B-61E3-4720-B76F-4745A3C963DA@netconsonance.com> <658B8861-1E78-4767-8D3D-8B79CC0BD45F@netconsonance.com> <48D1DF82.20205@modulus.org> In-Reply-To: <48D1DF82.20205@modulus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AUTH-WEBZONE: andrewd@webzone.net.au successfully authed as username:andrewd Cc: Subject: Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:41:43 -0000 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"