Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 06:49:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com, jc@irbs.com, joerg@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Changed information for PR kern/179 Message-ID: <199503220649.GAA01658@isl.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199503220541.PAA03881@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 22, 95 03:41:11 pm
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In reply to Bruce Evans who said > > I'd like a mail interface to edit-pr (e.g., by sending a reply to the > initial bug report). It's too hard for me to log in to freefall and > edit things with a round trip time of 2-30 seconds. Hmm, I don't like the idea of trying to implement that since you'd have to send mail to freefall, get a copy of the PR, lock the PR while a copy gets mailed back to you, wait for you to edit it and send it back....... I think you see the problem. I'm going to wait and see what the next version looks like since it sounds a lot more sophisticated. If it's not then I think me and Jordan (since he's already made noises about it being inadequate for a lot of things we want to do) are going to take a hard look at what we need and I'll write something more appropriate for the way we work and the service we want to provide. > > Many bug reports give only a special case of the bug. They should > be edited by someone who understands all the details if the someone > doesn't have time to fix all the details. > This process should happen anyway. When a bug report arrives someone who knows that code area should go and see what the cause of the problem is and change the state to analysed, with an explanation of what the real extent of the problem is. Then if necessary they can spend time thinking about the correct way to fix it and if someone gets impatient and tries a quick fix they should see that its already been analyzed and what exactly would be involved to fix it. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.
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