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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:00:02 -0700
From: Jim Mock <jim@lust.geekhouse.net>
To: Frederik Meerwaldt <frederik@freddym.org>
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Subject: Re: Current unassigned doc problem reports
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010162043030.2956-100000@server.wes.mee.com>; from frederik@freddym.org on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:47:02PM +0200
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On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 at 20:47:02 +0200, Frederik Meerwaldt wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> > > I've seen the list with the problem reports, and I thought that I 
> > > could work on some of them, too (especially manpage-stuff). But I
> > > don't know where I should register to the "Docu-Team".
> > 
> > You just did :-)  What you should do is work on them, then submit
> > patches using send-pr.
> 
> Oh did I? :-)

Yep.

> Can I fetch a totally up-to-date list of PRs anywhere on the net?

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?query

> Can I see the whole issue then? I know the programs in which I get a list
> of available issues, and then you can open one issue, and then assign it
> to you.
> 
> The Problem here is: If I decide to fix the problem, is there a way to say
> that I do it? That nobody else does the work too, and then we have twice
> the same result. That would be a waste of time.

Not really.  It seems to work well that way mainly because if someone
could assign a PR to themselves (other than committers) and never did
anything with it, no one else could claim it without a committer's
interaction (i.e., assign the PR to someone else or back to the list).

- jim

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