From 070aa0da56bb55763356d2a794f28f759020da9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Rhodes Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 19:10:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Structure change to the PR-Guidelines article. PR: 39055 Submitted by: Chris Pepper --- .../articles/pr-guidelines/article.sgml | 15 +++++++-------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pr-guidelines/article.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pr-guidelines/article.sgml index 1fde432784..777f3f524d 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pr-guidelines/article.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pr-guidelines/article.sgml @@ -60,14 +60,14 @@ - The originator submits a PR and receives a confirmation - message. + The Reporter submits a PR and receives a confirmation + message, most likely via &man.send-pr.1; or the Problem Report web form at http://www.FreeBSD.org/send-pr.html. Joe Random Committer takes interest in the PR and assigns it to himself, or Jane Random BugBuster decides that - Joe is the best suited to handle it and assigns it to + Joe is best suited to handle it and assigns it to him. @@ -240,22 +240,21 @@ choose the one that contains the largest amount of useful information and close the others, stating clearly the number of the superseding PR. If several PRs contain non-overlapping - useful information, submit whatever is missing from the one - you keep open in a followup, with references to the PRs you - close. + useful information, submit all the missing information to one + in a followup, including references to the others; then close the other PRs (which are now completely superseded).
Stale PRs A PR is considered stale if it hasn't been modified in - more than six months. Apply the following procedure: + more than six months. Apply the following procedure to deal with stale PRs: If the PR contains sufficient detail, try to reproduce the problem in -CURRENT and - -STABLE. if you succeed, submit a + -STABLE. If you succeed, submit a followup detailing your findings and try to find someone to assign it to. Set the state to analyzed if appropriate.