From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Aug 22 15:25:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A878D14FB9; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 15:25:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA96788; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 23:24:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 23:24:18 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: nik@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Default FDP docs installation directory? Message-ID: <19990822232418.A96331@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990818121931.A4266@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19990819131224.A844@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <199908221006.DAA01904@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199908221006.DAA01904@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami on Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 03:06:12AM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 03:06:12AM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > Also, just to show that it's not only the title that gives out the > impression that you are the one that's making decisions, here are some > sentences from that mail of yours: > > === > Heads up, the FDP directory change should be happening this weekend. > > After talking with John Polstra, it was decided that the wholesale > repository copies and moves within doc/ that I had originally > requested were infeasible due to the scale of the request. So we've > changed how it's going to be done. > : > At some point this weekend (to be decided by CVS Rep. Manager John Polstra) > the doc/ repository will be frozen. It will then be moved aside, and a > new doc/ repository created. > : > And after comments from the Japanese Doc. Proj., the directory for > Japanese docs in the repository will be ja_JP.EUC-JP. > : > === > > This is a mail handing down decisions, not one asking for comments. Satoshi, that message was sent after a month's worth of discussion, and two prior posted plans. I was under the impression that I was documenting the consensus that had been reached during that discussion. As events proved, my impression was wrong, and I was quick to correct that when the Japanese team pointed it out. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message