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Re: [perl x20606] [PATCH} openbsd hints

From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
January 31, 2003 03:41
Subject:
Re: [perl x20606] [PATCH} openbsd hints
Message ID:
20030131114055.A83537@plum.flirble.org
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:44:55AM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> On Fri 31 Jan 2003 02:09, Robert Spier <rspier@pobox.com> wrote:
> > > Please do not submit patches to the RT, but suggest these to the perl5 porters
> > > mailing list directly, since these can hardly be called bugs.
> > 
> > Although, if they go in the bug tracker they can be tracked, updated, and
> > referenced easily.
> 
> True, but the chance that they stay open, even after they are solved is big.
> I could close this one, but I'm so busy (as Hugo) that it is very easy to
> forget once you are pulled back in`normal' support or phone calls.

I find that preferable to them being outside the bug tracker and forgotten.
If the bug tracker has all the correspondence from p5p in it, then anyone
on tidy-up months later can see that it's closable, without having to dredge
the p5p archives.

Nicholas Clark



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