Re: FreeBSD bugzilla, bureaucracy and obstacles

From: Chris <portmaster_at_bsdforge.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 23:28:17 UTC
On 2023-07-18 00:05, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 9:02 AM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 18/07/2023 07:29, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>> > … Would you say that requesting maintainers-feedback when reporting an
>> > issue with a port is common sense? …
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>> Common sense, and automated sense, because in the vast majority of cases
>> (i.e. commonplace), the request is automated.
Tho I'm not the one whom you asked. I can say as a long-time Maintainer; that
the solicitation for feedback is automated in the sense that Bugzilla 
determines
whom the Maintainer is and CC's them.
>> 
> 
> I don't follow. What do you mean exactly by "the request is automated"?
> 
> 
>> 
>> Worth mentioning: I sometimes make mistakes when attempting to use the
>> Bugzilla GUI for such things, despite the on-screen hints that are
>> intended to avoid mistakes.
>> 
>>