From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Feb 8 15:28:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA07196 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 15:28:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from precipice.shockwave.com (precipice.shockwave.com [171.69.108.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA07184 Thu, 8 Feb 1996 15:28:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.shockwave.com (localhost.shockwave.com [127.0.0.1]) by precipice.shockwave.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA12349; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 15:27:37 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199602082327.PAA12349@precipice.shockwave.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , committers@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's up with bug assignments? (please read) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Feb 1996 22:08:51 +0100." <266.823813731@critter.tfs.com> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 15:27:36 -0800 From: Paul Traina Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk From: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: What's up with bug assignments? (please read) > > A while back, I spoke with several people about bug assignments, and Jor >>da n > > asked me to play bug czar to clean out our backlog. We've got a ton of > > bug reports, most of them are ancient history and simply need to be close >>d. > > > > I don't have complete knoweldge of every fix applied, so I'm passing them > > along to other folks to act as responsible parties. > > I just wanted to voice my support for this effort and publically thank > Paul for his work. Yes, we are a volunteer effort and having to > respond to bug reports (much less wade through hundreds of them, as > Paul has) is evil, nasty, boring, thankless work but, as the saying > goes, somebody has to do it. Yes, I'm fully for this too. One question though. If I browse the neat html and see something I can recognize, then how do I send an email that will get in the audit-log for a particular PR I havn't earlier communicated with ? mail to freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org put xxxx/nnnn in the subject line