docs/80681: articles/problem-reports: don't tell people they should sumbit a PR each time they see an outdated port

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

The following reply was made to PR docs/80681; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at people.tecnik93.com>
To: David Adam <zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
Cc: FreeBSD gnats submit <FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org>,
	freebsd-doc at 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 should sumbit a PR each time they see an outdated port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: Fri, 6 May 2005 04:48:46 +0300

 On Fri, 6 May 2005 08:55:52 +0800 (WST)
 David Adam <zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
 
 > On Fri, 6 May 2005, Ion-Mihai  IOnut  Tetcu wrote:
 > > --- problem-reports_article.sgml.diff begins here ---
 > > --- doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.sgml.orig	Fri May  6 02:41:02 2005
 > > +++ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.sgml	Fri May  6 02:48:55 2005
 > > @@ -106,7 +106,15 @@
 > >  	<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). In ports case there are 2 possibilities: the port
 > > +	  has no maitainer (MAINTAINER=ports at freebsd.org) in which case
 > > +	  if your PR doesn't contain a patch there are not many chances
 > > +	  somebody will stand up and do it) or the port is maintained,
 > > +	  in which case either the maintainer already knows about the
 > > +	  update and for various reasons (no time, there's a problem in
 > > +	  the new version, etc.) he hasn't submitted an update yet or if
 > > +	  he doesn't know you should always try first to contact him
 > > +	  directly and fill a PR only if you get no timle respose</para>
 > 
 > This sentence could, well, use some work.
 
 yeh :)
 
 > 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.
 
 
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