docs/80681: articles/problem-reports: don't tell people they should sumbit a PR each time they see an outdated port

[Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu]

>Number:         80681
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       articles/problem-reports: don't tell people they should sumbit a PR each time they see an outdated port
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 06 00:00:19 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE i386
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System: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #2: Thu Mar  3 23:57:35 EET 2005



>Description:


There's no reason to have GNTATS filles with PRs telling that there is a new version of port X, so add a few lines explaining what should one do.


>How-To-Repeat:





>Fix:


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--- 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>
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
 
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