2013/12/17 John Marino <freebsd.cont...@marino.st>: > Over the months I've seen several ports users copy a failure log and > mail it to ports@, usually without even saying "hello". I've tried to > discourage that behavior but other members of this mail list encourage > this method of bypassing writing PRs. One user even proudly boasted > that sending email to ports@ is faster than writing a PR so of course he > was going to do that instead. > > If this kind of post is acceptable to the rest of the people here, and > I'm alone in not only finding it very rude, but also making the volume > of ports@ too high, then please tell me that the problem is with me. > > If nothing is going to change, I am going to unsubscribe from ports@ > list. The gcc developers on g...@gcc.gnu.org always tell a poster when a > post in appropriate for that list and as a result and as a result the > posters usually only make a mistake once. I'd like to see something > closer to that, but if the list isn't going to be policed then it's too > noisy for me. > > John
I agree on some points. However, sometimes users asks why it does not compile because it can come from their installations. It's quite true, a port "should" compile if not it should be marked as BROKEN. I personally prefer to ask to the list when it does not compiles because it can comes from me. For instance I asked for virtualbox because I didn't see any other complaint nor PRs and since it compiles from my system and not poudriere I thought I did something wrong. And for that purpose I think that we should not spam the GNATS where problems can appear at the user side first. But for me, I often starts my mails by Hello :-). Regards, -- Demelier David _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
