On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:40:59PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:41:02PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: > > >The following was rejected on cygwin-patches. I'm intentionally posting > > >to the wrong list now because I shouldn't have to subscribe to a mailing > > >list just to report a bug! > > > > Since cygwin-patches isn't a "bug reporting" mailing list and since the > > below > > isn't "a patch", > > It's a line by line description of what needs to be changed to fix a > bug. That it's not a "Larry Wall format" patch doesn't make it any > less of a patch.
Is there a reason? Applying a patch shouldn't have involve starting an editor. > The mailing list description page says not to mail such things to this > list. > > > I'd say that that the system was working as designed. > > Hardly. Umm, you need to distinguish between reporting a bug (which should be done here) and submitting a patch (which should be done on cygwin-patches). Requiring subscription probably filters out a lot of stuff that shouldn't be on that list, and is a reasonable request. Is there a reason you couldn't subscribe, send, and unsubscribe? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
