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Judging by the massive amount of unfixed bug reports linked in this email, doesn't it seem like documentation has been an afterthought for them for a long time?
by vipermoney 4y ago
Judging by the massive amount of unfixed bug reports linked in this email, doesn't it seem like documentation has been an afterthought for them for a long time?
Does anyone have a comparison for OpenBSD or NetBSD's documentation having outdated or incorrect info?
- the_only_law 4y agoNetBSD documentation is just straight up missing sometimes. iirc a lot of kernel interfaces are both missing documentation and are different than other BSDs. You either need dig through the source or ask for help.
- 1over137 4y agoIs that really such a massive number of bug reports, for a project as large as FreeBSD? I'm not convinced.
- vipermoney 4y agoPerhaps it's not as large as you think, relatively speaking. If we take a look at bugs.freebsd.org, it seems that many bug reports are opened and left to rot for years. The documentation section of the tracker is no exception. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/page.cgi?id=showreport.html&type=total_open_bugs_over_time https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/page.cgi?id=showreport.htm... Seems to be getting worse with time too.
- 1over137 4y ago>many bug reports are opened and left to rot for years Yup. This is common for many project, like llvm: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues