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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-07-26 18:16:55 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-07-26 18:16:55 +0000 |
commit | c5f805f5941528fac6511b78353db7ddcadab101 (patch) | |
tree | 2e2e28827f63a2ff27c2ff3cbf2d808b443340df | |
parent | ad2a92535a38126b277ecfe0c0eceba50dfc055d (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-c5f805f5941528fac6511b78353db7ddcadab101.zip FreeBSD-src-c5f805f5941528fac6511b78353db7ddcadab101.tar.gz |
Cleanup of "Reporting Problems" section, which has been renamed
"Contacting the FreeBSD Project": Mostly fixed style nits, and
performed some overlooked s/FreeBSD/&os;/ substitutions.
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/problems.sgml | 48 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/problems.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/problems.sgml index ce1de9e..2a0f28d 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/problems.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/problems.sgml @@ -10,35 +10,34 @@ RELNOTES.TXT. --> <sect1 id="contacting"> - <title>Reporting Problems, Making Suggestions, and Submitting - Code</title> + <title>Contacting the &os; Project</title> - <para>Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are + <para>Suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always valued — please do not hesitate to report any problems you - may find (preferably with a fix attached, if you can!).</para> + may find. Bug reports with attached fixes are of course even more + welcome.</para> <para>The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine with Internet mail connectivity is to use the &man.send-pr.1; command or - use the CGI script at <ulink + use the Web form at <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/send-pr.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/send-pr.html</ulink>. - Bug reports will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program - and you can be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all - reported bugs as soon as possible. Bugs filed in this way are also - visible on our Web site in the support section and are therefore - valuable both as bug reports and as <quote>signposts</quote> for - other users concerning potential problems to watch out for.</para> - - <para>If, for some reason, you are unable to use &man.send-pr.1; to - submit a bug report, you can try to send it to the &a.bugs;.</para> + <quote>Problem Reports</quote> (PRs) submitted in this way will be filed and + their progress tracked; the &os; developers will do their best to respond to all + reported bugs as soon as possible. <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi">A list of all active PRs</ulink> is + available on the &os; Web site; this list is useful to see what + potential problems other users have encountered.</para> <para>Note that &man.send-pr.1; itself is a shell script that should - be easy to move even onto a totally different system. We much - prefer if you could use this interface, since it make it easier to - keep track of the problem reports. However, before submitting, - please try to make sure whether the problem might have already been + be easy to move even onto a non-&os; system. Using this interface + is highly preferred. + If, for some reason, you are unable to use &man.send-pr.1; to + submit a bug report, you can try to send it to the &a.bugs;.</para> + + <para>In any case, before submitting a PR, + please try to determine whether the problem might have already been fixed since.</para> - <para>Otherwise, for any questions or tech support issues, please send + <para>For any questions or general technical support issues, please send mail to the &a.questions;.</para> <para>If you're tracking the -current development efforts, you @@ -46,16 +45,17 @@ RELNOTES.TXT. abreast of recent developments and changes that may affect the way you use and maintain the system. - <para>Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to + <para>Additionally, being a largely-volunteer effort, the &os; + Project is always happy to have extra hands willing to help — there are already far more - desired enhancements than we'll ever be able to manage by ourselves! - To contact us on technical matters, or with offers of help, please + desired enhancements than there is time to implement them. + To contact the developers on technical matters, or with offers of help, please send mail to the &a.hackers;.</para> <para>Please note that these mailing lists can experience <emphasis>significant</emphasis> amounts of traffic and if you have slow or expensive mail access and are only interested in keeping up - with significant FreeBSD events, you may find it preferable to + with significant &os; events, you may find it preferable to subscribe instead to the &a.announce;.</para> <para>All of the mailing lists can be freely joined by anyone @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ RELNOTES.TXT. groups not mentioned here; more information can be obtained either through majordomo or the <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/support.html#mailing-list">mailing lists - section</ulink> of the FreeBSD Web site.</para> + section</ulink> of the &os; Web site.</para> <important> <para>Do <emphasis>not</emphasis> send email to the lists asking to |