From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 23 14:36:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ECC4106566B for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:36:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com (mail-bw0-f219.google.com [209.85.218.219]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDFF28FC17 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:36:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so832402bwz.43 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:36:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=kq5+qkssl9KNGrzVOSLLDI/eu0Bol7wEUFIT3TcZu2Q=; b=BZU8kmJrPc1o3EzNmA+RIREp4+cEwYKHEiqFuF4YhuGBafNOxaH6ZG3KBU3UIp8NyU tJi5uChC3lBQWfW2yeteSuzxMuA/JInA+bnSfqTqp/hONlRVZ7bMp4eDtCr8yG1+SfT1 3N8nDJEKUfyuTHHMMZlziS2k9W447Pioxq3iY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kAiLx0Xpkx5+P1BxqaJ90F+6+kVk5k2wlCKHLCsbhgqqidvVeeYHq4RN78ANzU1ShX Zzn6nhDi/+Mpvg2MoGa6/xnh5/tjuV0bsFcLukfcF1tjeFTacPqKIfrEabcnCCIkRa2Y xnVOY9aBRdgVttmqpYBVq+V8QqOj5V5uV5CCo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.126.69 with SMTP id b5mr1124095fas.107.1248359765406; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:36:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A66B882.70204@gmail.com> References: <4ad871310907201847w15ceb0hce73bc4de9de0f0b@mail.gmail.com> <4A66B882.70204@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:36:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4ad871310907230736t29257c96v5f7230bcdf3a4089@mail.gmail.com> From: Glen Barber To: Manolis Kiagias Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook - What's Missing? 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: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:36:07 -0000 Hi, Manolis On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Manolis Kiagias wro= te: > Glen Barber wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> Short of PRs and list posts, is there a central location to find >> documentation that may be missing (or may need updating) for the >> transition to the 8.X branch? >> >> > None I am aware of. =A0The major enhancements are always in the release > announcement, though not all of these call for a handbook section (and > there are other more subtle changes that may need existing sections to > be modified). > That's what I had assumed, but I wanted to check if there was an external resource (similar to the LOR reporting site). I wanted to be sure I didn't miss it somewhere in my searching. [snip] > (how often do you go searching in /dev?) but it resulted in the update Too often. More than anyone probably should. :) > > If you have a good idea of what is in the Handbook, you can probably > find some sections that need to be updated by using the betas. =A0For > example, trying out 8.0-BETA1 I was surprised that I could not configure > my wireless card like I always did. Then I found out about the new > virtual wifi and the changes needed in ifconfig etc. These will > definitely need to be documented in the Handbook. > > A very good page to start looking is Ivan Voras' "What's cooking for > FreeBSD 8?" > > http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html > > Yes, I've seen his "What's cooking" stuff before. Very good stuff. Thanks for the reply. --=20 Glen Barber