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Date:      Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:23:14 +0100 (CET)
From:      "Julien Gabel" <jpeg@thilelli.net>
To:        pav@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/75551: [PATCH] Correct a 'post-patch' entry in the  port's Makefile since a files/patch-* seems to do the same thing.
Message-ID:  <49497.192.168.1.19.1104261794.squirrel@192.168.1.19>
In-Reply-To: <1104261378.48118.11.camel@hood.oook.cz>
References:  <200412281659.iBSGxciD076228@freefall.freebsd.org>  <20041228211134.056bb9b3@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <1104261378.48118.11.camel@hood.oook.cz>

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>>> (Bottom line here is that you should approach maintainer directly,
>>> without the detour via send-pr)

>> For two stylistic ones yes, but for the dir permissions (75549) and
>> "UntrustedDeliveryAgent" and "QuarantineAgent  (75548), I tend to
>> believe a pr is OK.

> Always, always, always, when there is an active maintainer around,
> direct contact with a maintainer is strongly preferred.
>
> It's really an ugly habit to send-pr patch and Cc maintainer.
>
> First, a lot of maintainers don't know how to act properly on such
> emails, they just don't Cc their replies back to GNATS.

It is ok to act this way for me: i just thought it was the right way to
do it this way, but it seems not to be the case. No problem with the
proposed method.

> And in last row, it creates a lot of administrative overhead for us,
> committers.

Sorry for the overhead.

-- 
-jpeg.



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