-doc/bugs issue/question

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2003.08.11 12:54:19 -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:

> Many people submit patches in their PRs; however, many of them are
> not applied because they are submitted for a stable branch and
> many developers simply lack the time to merge it into current.
> 
> Perhaps in our PR/bugs documentation, we could recommend that:
> 
> A patch against the CURRENT or HEAD CVS branch is preffered since
> all new code should be applied and tested first.  After

perhaps :

all new code in FreeBSD should be applied and tested in the CURRENT branch first.

> appropriate or substational testing has been done, the code will
> be merged/migrated to the STABLE branch.
> 
> What is the general opinion of the -doc team on this?

Sounds like a good idea to me.  The more help we can give people to make
better PR's, the better.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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