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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2001-07-26 18:16:55 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2001-07-26 18:16:55 +0000
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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.
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<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 &mdash; 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 &mdash; 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
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