From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun May 3 13:18:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19008 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 13:18:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19001 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 13:18:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03334; Sun, 3 May 1998 13:16:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <354CD09D.BCD981C4@san.rr.com> Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 13:16:29 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0502 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp CC: Randall Hopper , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/5296 References: <11530.894208509@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <19980503110644.A4917@ct.picker.com>, Randall Hopper writes: > >I'm confused then. I thought closed meant fixed or no longer an issue > >(e.g. code removed from source tree). > > closed means: "It will never happen if it hasn't happened by now. There > is no patch, and it is dogwash priority for everybody to make one." > > It's just the life of a volounteer project that we have to say "too bad" > to some of the many things, and this was one of them. As much as I appreciate your efforts to close PR's that have actually been solved and/or are no longer relevant to the state of our code, IMO this is entirely the wrong response to a PR that is actually still a problem and more importantly has an active audit trail. This would have been an excellent candidate for suspended status which would put it in the large category you're creating of things that we'd like to fix but need someone to deal with them. As you state so eloquently this is a volunteer project, but discouraging people from contributing (even those who can't necessarily contribute code) is not the way to make a volunteer project succeed. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message