Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 18:59:56 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: Ian <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I want to help Message-ID: <3CABC1AC.A0086573@mindspring.com> References: <20020403204646.GF93885@elvis.mu.org> <B8D0F3EC.BBC5%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> <20020404010400.GH93885@elvis.mu.org>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Ian <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> [020403 17:01] wrote: > > What I found instead was that each of the problems I had found had already > > been PR'd and patches were submitted with the PRs, so the problems and the > > fixes have just been sitting there going stale for months. In one case I > > found the exact same problem reported in two open PRs (months apart) with > > different fixes available. [ ... ] > Sometimes a strongly worded: > > "this bug has had a perfectly viable fix sitting in GNATS for a month > can someone _please_ take a look at it" > > what works even better is tacking onto a developer you know and > mailing them personally. sometimes just seeing a message like > that and 100% of the viewers are like, "well someone will commit > that" and no one does. :) Translation: "Send email to Alfred". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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