diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pr-guidelines/article.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pr-guidelines/article.sgml index 8ae6c76006..7eff8c0ff3 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pr-guidelines/article.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pr-guidelines/article.sgml @@ -324,7 +324,6 @@ Type Categories Default Assignee - Assignee Type @@ -333,35 +332,30 @@ advocacy efforts advocacy freebsd-advocacy - mailing list &java.virtual.machine; problems java freebsd-java - mailing list standards compliance standards freebsd-standards - mailing list threading libraries threads freebsd-threads - mailing list &man.usb.4; subsystem usb freebsd-usb - mailing list @@ -376,15 +370,25 @@ The converse is also true, of course.) Certain PRs may be reassigned away from these generic - assignees by anyone. For assignees which are mailing lists, + assignees by anyone. There are several types of assignees: + specialized mailing lists; mail aliases (used for certain + limited-interest items); and individuals. + + For assignees which are mailing lists, please use the long form when making the assignment (e.g., freebsd-foo instead of foo); this will avoid duplicate emails sent to the mailing list. + Since the list of individuals who have volunteered to + be the default assignee for certain types of PRs changes + so often, it is much more suitable for the FreeBSD wiki. + + + Here is a sample list of such entities; it is probably not complete. - Common Assignees — base system