Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 10:04:04 -0300 From: Daniel Gerzo <danger@rulez.sk> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, "doc@freebsd.org" <doc@freebsd.org>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Call for Documentation Contributors Message-ID: <95629F52-ADF7-4D96-8153-4C9C4E894780@rulez.sk> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim-60%2BTeBRdK8hMCVQihq1hTNwwPkoU87H5%2BaDN@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTim=VBiPgEpo=j6BVxHRB2on%2BcaJaGHsUwzGoBao@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinVhbb3aK%2BKCEe_4Y7kx00844HW7pktmJwPnR%2Bj@mail.gmail.com> <20100902080219.GH64651@hoeg.nl> <45764F17-2279-4520-93D7-8F0B8BE991DE@rulez.sk> <AANLkTim-60%2BTeBRdK8hMCVQihq1hTNwwPkoU87H5%2BaDN@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3.9.2010, at 1:10, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote: >>=20 > Wouldn't it be a lot easier to have a nice article on installing > /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-* from the date of the release of the installe= d > system? Or maybe offer archive web access to a handbook snapshot from tha= t > date(Django does something similar)? FYI we have archive of hadbooks and FAQs for past releases at http://docs.fr= eebsd.org/doc/. People just often don't know or are lazy to browse there, ev= en though I believe it is linked from the footer of the handbook. The proble= m here is that we happen to cover all the supported releases in a single han= dbook which simply leads to confusion...on the other hand you may be right t= hat discrepancies don't happen that often and the additional work is not wor= th it. > Maintaining separate handbook branches > seems unrealistic if there aren't enough doc contributors to maintain one t= o > expectations, and IME discrepancies aren't very frequent.
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