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From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:35:36 -0800
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity,
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[snip]

> For starters, what would be much more appreciated is for devs to be
> much more involved from the start once someone does submit the patch.
> I appreciate that people a fallible and from time to time are bound to
> forget that they have a PR with a patch assigned to them, but there's
> no reason why the PR handling system can't email reminders...

GNATS already emails periodic reminders to bug owners (be the owners individ=
ual devs or mailing lists, eg freebsd-rc, etc).
-Garrett=