Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 02:56:25 +0300 From: "Ion-Mihai " IOnut " Tetcu" <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> To: "FreeBSD gnats submit" <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org> Subject: docs/80681: articles/problem-reports: don't tell people they should sumbit a PR each time they see an outdated port Message-ID: <1115337385.0@it.buh.tecnik93.com> Resent-Message-ID: <200505060000.j4600JZh067639@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 80681 >Category: docs >Synopsis: articles/problem-reports: don't tell people they should sumbit a PR each time they see an outdated port >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri May 06 00:00:19 GMT 2005 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu >Release: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #2: Thu Mar 3 23:57:35 EET 2005 >Description: There's no reason to have GNTATS filles with PRs telling that there is a new version of port X, so add a few lines explaining what should one do. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: --- 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 @@ <para>Notification of updates to externally maintained software (mainly ports, but also externally maintained base system components such as BIND or various GNU - utilities).</para> + 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</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> --- problem-reports_article.sgml.diff ends here --- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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