On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 09:23:53AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
quoted text > >On 31.10-08:40, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> >[ ... ]
> >> > Yeah, right.
> >[ ... ]
> >> I don't understand. Is newbies learning new things a waste to you? Do
> >> you think they won't really learn anything unless the patch is
> >> approved? Or will the patches not be subject to peer review? Or are
> >> you worried at who would pass for peer review getting overwhelmed by a
> >> huge volume of poor quality patches?
> >
> >and i would suggest that the severe and prevelant attitude toward the
> >possibilty of poor patches or under-educated actions is the most
> >significant barrier to encouraging new/young developers.
>
> Yes, it is a significant problem that we won't hand-hold whiners who
> could by now be digging for things to fix. There are hundreds of ways
> to self-motivate, but instead we get whine whine whine.
>
> We've got a PR database with bugs in it, and we NEVER get fixes from
> outsiders. That's not news to anyone, if they actually wanted to do
Maybe the outsiders just cannot find the PR database. I put
"openbsd pr database" into google and looked into all links on the first
page. The pr database is always mentioned, but never linked. Where is it?
CL<
