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Date:      Thu, 6 Mar 1997 17:42:08 +0000
From:      gjm11@dpmms.cam.ac.uk
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   docs/2897: send-pr categories should be explained somewhere
Message-ID:  <E0w2hBA-0000Pu-00@g.pet.cam.ac.uk>
Resent-Message-ID: <199703061750.JAA00920@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         2897
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       send-pr categories should be explained somewhere
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar  6 09:50:01 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gareth McCaughan
>Organization:
very little
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-970215-GAMMA i386
>Environment:

	(not really relevant)

>Description:

	It would be nice if there were some official documentation of
	the available send-pr categories. By and large it's reasonably
	clear what they are for, but an official statement would be
	good, and would clear up those borderline cases where it's
	genuinely not clear what category to use. (Example: a day or
	two ago I reported that /stand/sysinstall has some wrong
	URLs hard-coded into it. Should this have been "bin" (it's
	a program), "conf" (it's a configuration error), or "misc"?)

	Actually, I'm not at all sure what "conf" means. Specifically,
	I don't know whether it means "problem with the way something
	is configured", or "problem with something used for configuration"?
	Or perhaps neither of these?

	Possibly the Right Thing to do is to modify send-pr so that
	it can take some sort of brief explanations in its category
	list and present them to the user, in which case this isn't
	a FreeBSD problem.

	Anyway, one way or another I think the purposes of the available
	categories should be documented.

>How-To-Repeat:

	% send-pr

>Fix:
	
	I'm not sure. Perhaps an entry in the Handbook.

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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