Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 07:20:07 GMT From: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/80681: articles/problem-reports: don't tell people they should sumbit a PR each time they see an outdated port Message-ID: <200505070720.j477K7gE054241@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/80681; it has been noted by GNATS. From: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> Cc: FreeBSD gnats submit <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/80681: articles/problem-reports: don't tell people they should sumbit a PR each time they see an outdated port Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 15:10:12 +0800 (WST) > > Why not just "If you are reporting a new version of a port, try to contact > > the port's maintainer first."? > > So that I don't see PR but post on ports@ ? Well, it will be an > improvement, at least no one will have to close them. I have two primary problems with the proposed patch - It's poorly written. This can be fixed. - The general message that it gives is not one I think is beneficial. We should be trying to remove barriers for people to report problems, not institute them. I can understand that you want to reduce the amount of waffle in the PR database, but I think your proposed change is too complicated and too negative. Now, I am not a committer nor subscribed to ports@, but surely hitting the Delete key once or twice a week more often is not that huge a price to pay? I propose that this patch be shortened to: --- article.sgml.orig 2005-01-15 10:16:42.000000000 +0800 +++ article.sgml 2005-05-07 15:07:06.622424000 +0800 @@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ <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). If you are reporting a new version of a + port, try contacting the port's maintainer first.</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> David Adam zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
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