From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Oct 4 23:52:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2DB414BE2 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 23:52:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 4743 invoked by uid 1003); 5 Oct 1999 06:55:01 -0000 Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 08:55:01 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Andrew Boothman Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Subject: Re: Automatic Documentation Index Message-ID: <19991005085501.A1879@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon 1999-10-04 (21:51), Andrew Boothman wrote: > I've been a little disappointed in the response to this. Do we think > this is a worthwhile project, that we should encourage the Ports team > to adopt, or should I just drop the idea? Apathy is something you have to deal with sometimes, especially when no-one specifically feels it is in their "job description". For example, this should probably go to -ports, where a whole bunch of people will say "No, this is just adding more work to the porters!", and hopefully someone respected will say "wow, what a great idea", and everyone else will shut up. > I certainly think it's a good idea, but i'll need the support of at > least somebody else, otherwise it's just a one-man crusade. I need the > documentation project behind me on this. Consider the documentation project behind you ;) Seriously, if noone says "bah, this is a stupid idea", they're probably just waiting for the patches to be applied. At the very least, I'm behind this one for you, if that means anything, as it was on my TODO list, and I believe Nik's one too. Just shout (like I suggested) if you need help with ports/package tool patches - I'm pretty comfortable in them. > Do we think that newbies and busy sysadmins alike would benifit from > an index page like this or not? If so, how should we move forward > toward implementing it? Patches, and then submitting it to the PR system. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message