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for an answer, consider posing the question to the
&a.questions;.</para>
- <para>Some cases where it may be appropriate to submit a problem
- report about something that is not a bug are:</para>
+ <para>When submitting a PR about software not written by FreeBSD
+ contributors (such as ports), consider the following:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>Notification of updates to externally maintained
- software (such as ports or software in the contrib/
- directory).</para>
-
<para>For unmaintained ports (<varname>MAINTAINER</varname>
- contains <literal>ports@FreeBSD.org</literal>), such update
- notifications might get picked up by an interested
+ contains <literal>ports@FreeBSD.org</literal>),
+ a PR about a new update
+ might get picked up by an interested
committer, or you might be asked to provide a patch to
update the port; providing it upfront will greatly improve
- your chances that the port will get updated in a timely
+ the chances that the port will get updated in a timely
manner.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>If the port is maintained, PRs announcing new upstream
- releases are usually not very useful since they generate
- supplementary work for the committers, and the maintainer
- likely knows already there is a new version, they have
- probably worked with the developers on it, they are probably
- testing to see there is no regression, etc.</para>
+ releases are usually not very helpful since maintainers
+ are automatically notified by
+ <application>portscout</application>, which automatically
+ tracks new versions of applications, and so a PR would only
+ create supplementary work for the committers.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>In either case, following the process described in <link
xlink:href="&url.books.porters-handbook;/port-upgrading.html">Porter's
Handbook</link> will yield the best results. (You might

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