From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun May 3 10:19:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23134 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 10:19:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23120 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 10:19:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA11746; Sun, 3 May 1998 19:18:43 +0200 (CEST) To: Randall Hopper cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/5296 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 May 1998 13:02:25 EDT." <19980503130225.A5086@ct.picker.com> Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 19:18:43 +0200 Message-ID: <11744.894215923@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <19980503130225.A5086@ct.picker.com>, Randall Hopper writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp: > |Randall Hopper: > | > |>Ok, now I know. In the future I'll be less intent on investigating and > |>logging detailed PRs for bugs in less trafficed areas since they could just > |>be closed. > | > |This is the wrong response. The right response would have been: > | "Ok, now I know. In the future I will try to provide a patch > | for the problems I find, since nobody would expect people who > | spend their spare-time on a free OS to be able to fix all the > | bugs by them selves." > >Hmm. IMO, that's the wrong response. We shouldn't expect all folks that >file PRs to be developers, or even developers that want to (and have the >time to) dive into any and every area where "something strange" is >observed. Well, remember what you paid for FreeBSD :-) In fact I do have every right to expect everybody to actually look at the code before sending a PR to us. After all, we ship the source, so why shouldn't they ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message