From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 15 12:47:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC3016A41F; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:47:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from remko@freebsd.org) Received: from caelis.elvandar.org (caelis.elvandar.org [217.148.169.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F87643D48; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:47:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from remko@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (caelis.elvandar.org [217.148.169.59]) by caelis.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23633930D56; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:47:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from caelis.elvandar.org ([217.148.169.59]) by localhost (caelis.elvandar.org [217.148.169.59]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26112-10; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:47:41 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4350FA82.4050201@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:48:02 +0200 From: Remko Lodder User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Fonvieille References: <200510142331.j9ENV8nA099971@freefall.freebsd.org> <1129364021.653.11.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> <20051015055837.2a3b9035.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20051015122036.GT99170@submonkey.net> <20051015123615.GC1202@gothic.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20051015123615.GC1202@gothic.blackend.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by the elvandar.org maildomain Cc: Tom Rhodes , doc@FreeBSD.org, Joel Dahl Subject: Re: docs/87445: comments for improvement of handbook/kernelconfig-config.html X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:47:44 -0000 Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 01:20:37PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > >>[ Moved to doc@ from some other place ] >> >>On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 05:58:37AM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: >> >> >>> Or perhaps >>>4.X will be knifed from the handbook. And most likely, the >>>only people who will expect it coming will be those that aren't >>>going to stand in my way.[1] :) >>> >>>[1]: Please don't take that as if it's rude, I'm actually >>> joking around with it. Cause I know that if someone >>> tried that, well, to core && doceng they'd be explaining. >> >>Actually that's a great idea. There's no reason why we couldn't, like >>today, commit a copy of the current handbook to handbook4 and then get >>rid of all the crud from the real handbook. Same deal with the FAQ. >>The information is still available then, but we no longer have to tear >>our own hair own trying to maintain the documents. >> > > > If people agree with that idea, let's freeze a Handbook4 and stop > "supporting" 4.X in docs. (By "freeze" I mean no any new > addition/change beside typos.) Let's then create a HANDBOOK_4 (or > something like that) tag for CVSup operations. > We could do the same for Handbook5 when 5.X will be dropped. > Well, we could do the same as the Security Officer and set up a schedule > for releases Handbook/docs support; this schedule will allow us to know > when a HandbookX freeze will happen. > > Marc I am very much in favor of this idea. Though, should we really tag another branch? We recently branched the documentation for RELENG6 so we might want to just use that? instead of duplicating that information. On the other hand, a nice schedule and the availability of 'old' unused branches is also very nice. I'd say, go for it :-) -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder ** remko@elvandar.org FreeBSD ** remko@FreeBSD.org Reporter DSINET ** remko@DSINet.org