From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 22 13:30:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5316116A4BF; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:30:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88CDC43FA3; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:30:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (neutrino.centtech.com [204.177.173.28]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h9MKUr6T017339; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:30:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3F96E8EC.7010609@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:30:36 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Linimon References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org cc: ceri@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a reminder to PR submitters X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:30:58 -0000 Mark Linimon wrote: >While these are all good points, a GNATS upgrade is in the >works, so there's little reason to try to fix the existing one. >IIRC des has been insistent on deprecating the severity/priority >fields (as you note, the data in them are 90%+ bogus). > >However, worse than all these problems is the fact that no >one has come up with code to reenable the web-based send-pr, >and IMHO that's a more important (but related) task to all >the above. > >Note that I'm not volunteering any patches to any of the >above at this time :-) > >Well, maybe I might for the templates, since they're pretty >busted, anwyays. > > I'd be willing to work on a replacement for the web-send-pr cgi program. I looked at it a year or so ago, and got distracted by other things. Can someone give me a list of "requirements" for the new program? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------