From owner-cvs-all Sun Apr 12 20:29:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA22746 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 20:29:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA22736; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 20:29:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA12970; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 21:51:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 21:51:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@localhost To: Nate Williams cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: PRs in suspended state In-Reply-To: <199804130126.TAA27099@mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > In an attempt to get to the 3.0-RELEASE ready frame of mind, I am > > doing a end-to-other review of our Gnats database right now. The > > PRs which contain substance, but with little or no hope to get done > > will be moved to "suspended" state. > > This seems silly to me, and makes us look even less professional. There > is no difference between 'open' and 'suspended' at all. Putting a PR in > suspended state is essentially the same as deleting it. > > Also, a few PR's were closed with "it ain't gonna get fixed", which is > just plain stupid. Just because it isn't going to fixed before 3.0 > doesn't mean it's isn't going to get fixed ever. The point of having a > PR database is to have a record of those outstanding bugs that will get > fixed. Do you have a suggestionj as to what to do with PRs that haven't anything to do with software that is part of the FreeBSD tree? I'm specifically referring to the PRs on ports stuff, where the complaint isn't about the port per se, but about the operation of the software that the port correctly installs. Such things are, IMO, even more unprofessional, because they *can't* be fixed ... no method of closing such PRs. It seemed to me that putting things in the suspend state was a nice compromise. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message