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To: Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com>
Cc: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Sun jumping on Linux bandwagon
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: 18 Dec 1998 09:48:44 -0500
In-Reply-To: Todd Whitesel's message of "Fri, 18 Dec 1998 05:30:11 -0800 (PST)"
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Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com> writes:
> > I've never seen this happen. If you have a bug, we try to fix it. On
> > rare occasions, someone posts a PR like "I think that the kernel
> > should be renamed /gazorknoplant" and it gets closed because it is
> > neither a good idea nor a bug, but that happens once in a very great
> > while. PRs are PRs, and no one pays attention to who submitted the
> > bug.
> 
> Hmm, maybe we should, at least when we reject a PR. If I sent a PR and
> heard nothing for a while, and it didn't say fixed when I looked at the
> web site, I'd certainly think that a ball had been dropped somewhere.

We often *do* take months to fix PRs. That isn't the point. You
claimed people's PRs were being ignored because of who they are. That
doesn't happen. What does often happen is that we don't have the
manpower to hit everything quickly.

> Can gnats automatically send email when the state of a PR changes?

It already does.

> > >   3. Here I think that just having someone massage source-changes into a
> > >   daily digest would be a good start.
> > 
> > Todd Vierling does this already.
> 
> Are we talking http://www.netbsd.org/Changes/index.html ??

No, he has an actual source changes digest mailing list.

Perry