Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:24:43 -0700 From: underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: -doc/bugs issue/question Message-ID: <t4vft459xw.ft4@mail.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20030811171145.GB636@FreeBSD.org> (Simon L. Nielsen's message of "Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:11:47 %2B0200") References: <20030811125419.266958a0.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20030811171145.GB636@FreeBSD.org>
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> Sounds like a good idea to me. The more help we can give people to make > better PR's, the better. The added up-front-ness about it would make for fewer grumpy helpers too. Speaking for myself when I was running STABLE, I didn't think much about CURRENT; I thought that was for bleeding-edge types and developers, and I chose not to mess with it. The new warning will loose many submittals from people like that, but it's the right thing to do (and will get some to base their PRs on CURRENT). Again speaking for myself, having many hours of work ignored can have an even more serious impact on submittal rate. In my worst case, I later got the impression that my days of work were ignored because it would have been difficult to merge into CURRENT and STABLE didn't make the priority cut. So I suggest that the warning be made even more "honest" by stating that the probability of having the PR used is considerably increased by basing the PR on CURRENT instead of STABLE. In the same manner that it currently states honestly that the probability is increased by the presence of a patch. P.S. I've just quit my legacy Linux user group duties, and I'm planning to return to FDP work in a month or so, but only if I can get on a fast track to committership, where less of my work will be ignored for lack of interest or priority. Starting from submitting e-mail comments, then patchless PRs, then patches to STABLE, then patches to CURRENT, one tends to learn the hard way, the inefficiency and often-times futility, of not being a committer. Or at least of not limiting one's self to a few PRs and "seeing them through", instead of sumbitting many PRs and just hoping they'll get dealt with.
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