Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:43:45 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Josef El-Rayes <j.el-rayes@daemon.li> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error(?) in contributing to freebsd article Message-ID: <20030813094345.GC26728@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20030813075519.GA1109@daemon.li> References: <20030813075519.GA1109@daemon.li>
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:55:19AM +0200, Josef El-Rayes wrote:
> hi!
>=20
> this sentence is taken from the "contribute to freebsd article".
> i was wondering whether this sentence is correct concerning the time
> values used in there:
>=20
> ---
> If you do not receive confirmation in a timely fashion (3 days to a
> week, depending on your email connection) or are, for some reason,
> unable to use the send-pr(1) command, then you may ask someone to file
> it for you by sending mail to the FreeBSD problem reports mailing list.
> ---
> why should it take GNATS to respond in more than 1 hour? i would have
> said that a maximum value of 1 day is more suitable than 1 week!
> more time for a respond will clearly determine an error - i dont think
> that it is necessary to wait one whole week. i remember all my PR (about
> 50) to have been replied by gnats in a maximum of 5 minutes.
>=20
> tell me what you think of it
Very often, PRs aren't filled in correctly, and they get put into the
pending category. Gnats doesn't send a response when this happens.
I try and clean out the misfiled PRs at least once a week, and other
committers occasionally do the same,and the three days gives us a chance
to do so.
Ceri
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