Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 03:19:21 -0800 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: delphij@hotmail.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I post a pr when my IP can't be reverse-resolved? Message-ID: <3DFB13B9.B185DCD0@softweyr.com> References: <3DFA09A2.C5B0103B@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > "öÎ Àî" wrote: > > [ ... Subject: ... ] > > You can't. The method I was about to start using was to post the > patch to the mailing list, and then use the web send-pr to send > the PR with a URL for the patch in the mailing list archives. > > This won't work because they disabled the web send-pr. > > I think the reason this was disable is some idiot was posting a > lot of PR's that were not really PR's, and then filling in the > mailing lists as "contact" (or whatever). I saw a lot of these > right before they disable it. Exactly the reason. > Probably, the correct thing would be to accept the submission, > and pend it for review, before it became active as a real PR. > This would require that a human look at the pending PRs, and > make a decision. Oddly enough, the Core Team has discussed exactly this approach. It's a good idea. Are you volunteering to do (some of) the work? Either of you? ;^) > Instead, what happened was the web submission form was disabled, > letting whoever was trying to poison the ability to report > problems win. Only partially. People with working mail systems can still report problems. People with non-working mail systems, or ISPs who are incapable of creating a proper reverse DNS entry, probably need to solve those problems before becoming tremendously worried about bugs in FreeBSD. Hint hint. > Not very satisfying to me, either, since a lot of people are > "PR-blind" to patches posted to the mailing list. > > Maybe you could also ask them to reenable web send-pr, as I did. Probably not gonna happen, it's just an invitation to abuse. Sorry. Bad people suck, the best we can do is cut our losses and move on. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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