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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 23:29:19 +0100 (MET)
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
Reply-To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
To: Joel Reicher <joel@panacea.null.org>
cc: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Community Issues ** LONG ** 
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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Joel Reicher wrote: 
> P.S. I'm lining myself up to be such a volunteer as soon as I see how I can
> be useful.

How about this:
Analyze PRs, find out what the problem is, discuss possible solutions with
either the PRs author or on some list, and send in patches to fix
problems. Having a good(!) patch available for a PR should reduce load on
people working on the NetBSD system, and speeds up actual bug fixing. 


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>