On 2020/01/14 00:54, leeb wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 04:42:22PM +0100, Martijn van Duren wrote:
> > On 1/13/20 4:30 PM, Anders Andersson wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 3:00 PM leeb <l...@shuuten.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
>      <snip>
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >>
> > >> Lee.
> > > 
> > > This email should be gold plated and moved to a permanent location in
> > > the FAQ on how to help OpenBSD and how to request new features.
> > > 
> > Lee is obviously new to the community and doesn't know the workflow well
> > enough. He tries to be polite and make sure he doesn't clutter the list.
> > If you actually read his mail you would've seen that he has a diff and
> > it works for him, so it's obviously not a dumb feature request.
> > 
> > Please refrain from ridiculing people with good intentions.
> > 
> 
> I originally read Anders' mail as complimentary, but now I'm not so sure?

Yes, it was - this is a good example!

: Now, this is my first attempt at OpenBSD development, and
: writing my changes raised a few questions. So, does someone
: want to spare a few minutes off-list, or should I just
: clutter up tech@ ?

tech@ is good because it means that other readers or people finding
this in list archives can benefit too from the questions/answers too,
and if it's something more general then people involved in documentation
may be able to identify something that's missing and worth adding.

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