From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 6 01:48:53 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8A1716A4CE for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 01:48:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay.rdsnet.ro (gimli.rdsnet.ro [193.231.236.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AE9143DAD for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 01:48:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: (qmail 27759 invoked from network); 6 May 2005 01:41:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.130) by smtp1-133.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 6 May 2005 01:41:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 5973 invoked by uid 89); 6 May 2005 02:01:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.tecnik93.com) (81.196.204.98) by 0 with SMTP; 6 May 2005 02:01:25 -0000 Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B06AE114CF; Fri, 6 May 2005 04:48:46 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 04:48:46 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: David Adam Message-ID: <20050506044846.2473f92c@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: References: <1115337385.0@it.buh.tecnik93.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org cc: FreeBSD gnats submit Subject: Re: docs/80681: articles/problem-reports: don't tell people they should sumbit a PR each time they see an outdated port X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 01:48:53 -0000 On Fri, 6 May 2005 08:55:52 +0800 (WST) David Adam wrote: > On Fri, 6 May 2005, Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote: > > --- problem-reports_article.sgml.diff begins here --- > > --- doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.sgml.orig Fri May 6 02:41:02 2005 > > +++ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.sgml Fri May 6 02:48:55 2005 > > @@ -106,7 +106,15 @@ > > Notification of updates to externally maintained > > software (mainly ports, but also externally maintained base > > system components such as BIND or various GNU > > - utilities). > > + utilities). In ports case there are 2 possibilities: the port > > + has no maitainer (MAINTAINER=ports@freebsd.org) in which case > > + if your PR doesn't contain a patch there are not many chances > > + somebody will stand up and do it) or the port is maintained, > > + in which case either the maintainer already knows about the > > + update and for various reasons (no time, there's a problem in > > + the new version, etc.) he hasn't submitted an update yet or if > > + he doesn't know you should always try first to contact him > > + directly and fill a PR only if you get no timle respose > > This sentence could, well, use some work. yeh :) > Why not just "If you are reporting a new version of a port, try to contact > the port's maintainer first."? So that I don't see PR but post on ports@ ? Well, it will be an improvement, at least no one will have to close them. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"