Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 19:18:43 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/5296 Message-ID: <11744.894215923@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 May 1998 13:02:25 EDT." <19980503130225.A5086@ct.picker.com>
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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
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