docs/80681: articles/problem-reports: don't tell people they should sumbit a PR each time they see an outdated port

[David Adam]

On Fri, 6 May 2005, Ion-Mihai  IOnut  Tetcu wrote:
> --- problem-reports_article.sgml.diff begins here ---
> --- doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.sgml.orig	Fri May  6 02:41:02 2005
> +++ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.sgml	Fri May  6 02:48:55 2005
> @@ -106,7 +106,15 @@
>  	<para>Notification of updates to externally maintained
>  	  software (mainly ports, but also externally maintained base
>  	  system components such as BIND or various GNU
> -	  utilities).</para>
> +	  utilities). In ports case there are 2 possibilities: the port
> +	  has no maitainer (MAINTAINER=ports at freebsd.org) in which case
> +	  if your PR doesn't contain a patch there are not many chances
> +	  somebody will stand up and do it) or the port is maintained,
> +	  in which case either the maintainer already knows about the
> +	  update and for various reasons (no time, there's a problem in
> +	  the new version, etc.) he hasn't submitted an update yet or if
> +	  he doesn't know you should always try first to contact him
> +	  directly and fill a PR only if you get no timle respose</para>

This sentence could, well, use some work.

Why not just "If you are reporting a new version of a port, try to contact
the port's maintainer first."?

Cheers,

David Adam
zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au