Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:07:42 -0600 From: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> To: marino@freebsd.org, "ports@FreeBSD.org" <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: If ports@ list continues to be used as substitute for GNATS, I'm unsubscribing Message-ID: <52B343FE.4070808@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <52B0D149.5020308@marino.st> References: <52B0D149.5020308@marino.st>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --lq3SslH52ViIX3hBPc62KWuxQc8qUoNPm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 12/17/2013 4:33 PM, John Marino wrote: > Over the months I've seen several ports users copy a failure log and > mail it to ports@, usually without even saying "hello". I've tried to > discourage that behavior but other members of this mail list encourage > this method of bypassing writing PRs. One user even proudly boasted > that sending email to ports@ is faster than writing a PR so of course h= e > was going to do that instead. >=20 > If this kind of post is acceptable to the rest of the people here, and > I'm alone in not only finding it very rude, but also making the volume > of ports@ too high, then please tell me that the problem is with me. >=20 > If nothing is going to change, I am going to unsubscribe from ports@ > list. The gcc developers on gcc@gcc.gnu.org always tell a poster when = a > post in appropriate for that list and as a result and as a result the > posters usually only make a mistake once. I'd like to see something > closer to that, but if the list isn't going to be policed then it's too= > noisy for me. >=20 > John I sincerely disagree and think it's quite rude to users to not accept their reports however they send them to us. current@ constantly has build failures on it, even automated. There's no reason ports@ shouldn't either. It tells everyone that "yes" there is a problem with this port and "it's not just me". --=20 Regards, Bryan Drewery --lq3SslH52ViIX3hBPc62KWuxQc8qUoNPm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSs0P+AAoJEDXXcbtuRpfPgWEH/iLAYXjPhII/9bODbsgxDPVb 1bdO4ImO91Evdg51RB7x0vtWIC/57l6k2572Jc9gnstOWfXzr2RAx3l0zokCCwV1 hc1ctVEmRGqy0eVT6EL7mGZo0UBu/Ly4hFdXMM0II7P1ZkVMa5Rte5C/GGNtEbxH hZqpfoHza1zDwK1BgSa6LT9DlELrR2euZw6HP7j3eEYrFtboPysGHY6kUgnLtndo offIXtKFfA1sVcKBx1mzjCS+uv36jumM6P+yIYyO8k8RMOck/PhTD5OrnxLK2Nyz 5CZG0dfB4v/00kUg3VAvIExknDLDgBcUzl9u1ojXo7/JC++cvAul6dsud4yYoHE= =WXUn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lq3SslH52ViIX3hBPc62KWuxQc8qUoNPm--
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