On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 09:23:53AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >On 31.10-08:40, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >[ ... ] > >> > Yeah, right. > >[ ... ] > >> I don't understand. Is newbies learning new things a waste to you? Do > >> you think they won't really learn anything unless the patch is > >> approved? Or will the patches not be subject to peer review? Or are > >> you worried at who would pass for peer review getting overwhelmed by a > >> huge volume of poor quality patches? > > > >and i would suggest that the severe and prevelant attitude toward the > >possibilty of poor patches or under-educated actions is the most > >significant barrier to encouraging new/young developers. > > Yes, it is a significant problem that we won't hand-hold whiners who > could by now be digging for things to fix. There are hundreds of ways > to self-motivate, but instead we get whine whine whine. > > We've got a PR database with bugs in it, and we NEVER get fixes from > outsiders. That's not news to anyone, if they actually wanted to do
Maybe the outsiders just cannot find the PR database. I put "openbsd pr database" into google and looked into all links on the first page. The pr database is always mentioned, but never linked. Where is it? CL<
