From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 18 21:30:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E790B37B400; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F4C43E31; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:30:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6J4U2CV038849; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4/Submit) id g6J4U2oG038846; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200207190430.g6J4U2oG038846@apollo.backplane.com> To: Robert Watson Cc: Terry Lambert , Julian Elischer , developers@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd) References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: : :> Robert Watson wrote: :> > I thought about it, but haven't had time to implement. Right now I just :> > cat the messages together, render, and fix warnings and errors due to bad :> > sgml in submissions. Oh, and write an introduction. It's actually a :> ******************** :> > remarkably simple process [for me], but I agree we could make it easier :> ************** :> > for developers. :> ************** :> :> Oh. I just have to laugh. I can't help it. 8-) 8-). : :I kid you not :-). About 40% of the SGML submissions I receive are broken :in some form, despite a template that is correct. Usually it's unclosed :tags, removal of a necessary tag, etc. If I had to guess, asking for :nroff/mdoc submissions would result in a slightly higher success rate, as :I suspect developers have a bit more experience with it, and also don't :have to install a port to get syntax checking. : :Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects :robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories You could create a port. e.g. 'senddevstat', which pops the person into vi with a template and runs it through a checker when one saves and quits, then asks whether to send it or not. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message