Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 03:32:16 -0800 (PST) From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> To: code@apotheon.net, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: If ports@ list continues to be used as substitute for GNATS, I'm unsubscribing Message-ID: <201312201132.rBKBWEQT089240@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20131219181343.GB47750@glaze.hydra>
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>Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:13:43 -0700 >From: Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> >To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: If ports@ list continues to be used as substitute for GNATS, I'm > unsubscribing > >On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 01:44:57AM -0800, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >> > >> >From: "Thomas Mueller" >> > >> >There are many messages on this thread, and I don't know which or >> >what to quote, but I agree on send-pr being user-unfriendly. >> >> I disagree. >> I use only send-pr to send PRs. >> I use sendmail. > >I disagree with you. For new users, send-pr is a fucking usability >train wreck, and insufficiently well documented. Let's agree to disagree. A slightly different point: I was a new user not so long ago. The major issue for me was whether to send a report at all. Most times I'd be thinking that I fucked up myself (and in many cases I did). In that case my first action would be to ask in questions@, usually after several days of trying to figure out what I have done wrong. Only after being advised in questions@ that it might be a real issue and that I should submit a PR for it, would I do it. In other words, as a new user I thought of sending a PR as a last resort, because I doubted myself a lot more than the stability of FreeBSD and the expertise of the team. The actual tools to submit a PR were never an obstacle. Anton
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