Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 08:01:52 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'll be rolling a 4.1.1 release on September 25th Message-ID: <200009171502.e8HF2fp47484@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Sep 2000 02:41:46 PDT." <8077.969183706@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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In message <8077.969183706@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Jordan Hubbard writes: > > You left out the exact steps on how someone who does not have > > commit privs is supposed to "get their patch applied". I, for > > one, have found that process frustrating. > > If I may try and distill this entire discussion down to a single > concrete "action item" which serves everyone's purposes without > attempting to negate reality in any way: > > What we appear to need here is a "How to get something into FreeBSD" > FAQ or tutorial which essentially codifies the instructions on how and > where to bother developers and how, this being the volunteer world of > free software and all, you also run the risk of never getting your > patch in at all. That way nobody would have any unrealistic > expectations of the process or feel that insult to injury had just > been added when told to do something they may have already done. In > significant cases, it might even net us some more committers. That would be nice, but in my experience I've just submitted patches to gnats and eventually someone would notice. I don't have to bug anyone. The PR's get implemented eventually. Even as a maintainer for a few ports who doesn't have commit privileges, I don't find the process frustrating. I guess I don't see what all the fuss is about. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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