From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 19 11: 0:31 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 EC15237B400; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 11:00:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 316A943E64; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 11:00:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020719180016.YPVA6023.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 18:00:16 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA90176; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:54:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:54:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Robert Watson Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" , Terry Lambert , developers@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Robert Watson wrote: > > > > >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. > > > > Knowing my own inclinations if I were asked to go through the hassle of > > composing an SGML document once a month which would encompass one measly > > paragraph I'd probably be negligent of the duty more often that not. > > Ever read the template? This isn't exactly rocket science, and it's also > not every month. No doubt a web form probably is the right way to go, and > it now appears at least three people are writing one. :-) This is a leaning experience for me... my first perl program... I suggest that if either of the others is not a perl newbie that you use that :-) p.s. who? > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects > robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message