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Subject: Re: PRs are being closed for bogus reasons :-(
From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
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Hi,

> On 31 May 2018, at 22:14, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> =
wrote:
>=20
> --------
> In message =
<CANCZdfovyg61=3Db0-60ZD426Z=3D774Wxm9hJxZ=3DbSqReW_fD4DoA@mail.gmail.com>=

> , Warner Losh writes:
>=20
>> There's a problem with the PR database: there's too many bugs.
>=20
> And despite the valiant efforts of a number of people over the
> lifetime of the project, it has always had so many bugs that
> everybody just threw their hands in the air and walked away.
>=20
> The way to improve the situation is to fix PR's, not to complain
> about PRs.

Indeed. But look at the number of PRs with patches that are stuck in =
that state. Not pretty.

> --=20
> Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
> phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
> FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe   =20
> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by =
incompetence.

--
Bob Bishop
rb@gid.co.uk