From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Mar 25 7:48:43 2003 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 A83B937B401 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:48:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C0943FA3 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:48:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: from blackhelicopters.org (mwlucas@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by blackhelicopters.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2PFmSDn075596; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:48:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h2PFmS9L075595; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:48:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:48:28 -0500 From: "Michael W . Lucas" To: Eric Anderson Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Axing the FAQ's 2.2.X support? Message-ID: <20030325104828.A75511@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20030325101720.A75278@blackhelicopters.org> <3E807936.3090800@centtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3E807936.3090800@centtech.com>; from anderson@centtech.com on Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:43:50AM -0600 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-25.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:43:50AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > Michael W . Lucas wrote: > > Guys, > > > > When 4.0 came out, we axed FreeBSD 2.1 from the FAQ. > > > > 5.0 is out. I suggest that we do the same for FreeBSD 2.2. I don't > > believe any new user is using 2.2 out there, and we no longer even > > pretend to support it. > > > > For context, 3.0 was released almost five years ago... > > > > Comments? > > Good point.. I say get your axe out. I'm almost tempted to say whack > 3.X stuff too.. Tempting, yes. And it would make life easier. But I suspect we still have a number of 3.x users out there, poor bastards. At once point there was discussion of having an all-signing, all-dancing, all-knowing FAQ build system that would allow us to build version-specific FAQs. This would be ideal. While nothing has ever happened with that, if someone feels ambitious this is the time to take it on. :-) ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Absolute BSD: http://www.AbsoluteBSD.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message