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Date:      Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:59:10 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Making suggestions
Message-ID:  <20020228055910.GC3311@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <15485.38830.961741.750404@guru.mired.org>
References:  <33993602@toto.iv> <15485.38830.961741.750404@guru.mired.org>

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On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:36:30PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Justin L. Boss <jlboss@yahoo.com> types:
> > Does anyone know how someone would go about making suggestions to BIN. Do
> > they read this list? I have some suggestion like changing the code it ps to
> > except the $ as a valid character. This would make the adduser script in
> > samba easer to write making FreeBSD more appealing to people. It would be so
> > nice not to have to do it manually every time. I have other ideas that I
> > think would make FreeBSD more appealing to newbies. Maybe I need to keep my
> > opinions to myself but FreeBSD is the best OS out their and since I'm not a
> > greatest coder in the world I would like to help in some small way.
> 
> The way to suggest enhancements, report bugs, etc. is with the
> "send-pr" command. You can make suggestions with it like you did
> here. If you have working code to do what you want, submit a patchfile
> with the pr and put [PATCH] at the start of the synopsys line.
> 
> Read the send-pr manual page for more information.
> 
I got a different answer to this question a while ago, that said that
the "team" did not all like PR's being used for "suggestions". I have
several (like getting rid of F77 from /usr/bin for example, why it is
there is a mystery to me).

-- 
Regards
   Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>

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