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Date:      Fri, 20 Dec 2013 03:32:16 -0800 (PST)
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk>
To:        code@apotheon.net, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: If ports@ list continues to be used as substitute for GNATS, I'm unsubscribing
Message-ID:  <201312201132.rBKBWEQT089240@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20131219181343.GB47750@glaze.hydra>

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>Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:13:43 -0700
>From: Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net>
>To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: If ports@ list continues to be used as substitute for GNATS, I'm
> unsubscribing
>
>On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 01:44:57AM -0800, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>> >
>> >From: "Thomas Mueller"
>> >
>> >There are many messages on this thread, and I don't know which or
>> >what to quote, but I agree on send-pr being user-unfriendly.
>> 
>> I disagree.
>> I use only send-pr to send PRs.
>> I use sendmail.
>
>I disagree with you.  For new users, send-pr is a fucking usability
>train wreck, and insufficiently well documented.

Let's agree to disagree.

A slightly different point:
I was a new user not so long ago.
The major issue for me was whether
to send a report at all.
Most times I'd be thinking
that I fucked up myself
(and in many cases I did).
In that case my first action would be to
ask in questions@, usually after
several days of trying to figure
out what I have done wrong. Only
after being advised in questions@
that it might be a real issue
and that I should submit a PR for it,
would I do it.

In other words, as a new user
I thought of sending a PR as
a last resort, because I doubted
myself a lot more than the
stability of FreeBSD and the
expertise of the team.
The actual tools to submit a PR
were never an obstacle.

Anton



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