From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 1 00:56:01 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF829106566B for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 00:56:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from fish.ish.com.au (eth5921.nsw.adsl.internode.on.net [59.167.240.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1D18FC14 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 00:56:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-136.ish.com.au ([203.29.62.136]:49849) by fish.ish.com.au with esmtpsa (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SwNBM-0000j5-1V for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:53:00 +1000 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A150204.50187DEC.00D5:SCFSTAT15613948, ss=1, re=-4.000, recu=0.000, reip=0.000, cl=1, cld=1, fgs=0 Message-ID: <50187DEB.2090906@ish.com.au> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:52:59 +1000 From: Aristedes Maniatis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120717 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: release documentation confusing for 9.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:56:01 -0000 Could I ask that someone with appropriate access rights review the state of release documentation for 9.1 beta. It is very confused. 1. This page is the best information available: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/schedule.html 2. The link from the front page ( http://www.freebsd.org/ ) is labelled "Upcoming: 9.1-BETA1" but goes to a page which is mostly about existing releases, not the next release. http://www.freebsd.org/where.html#helptest 3. Clicking on the "view" link for the 9.1 information on that page takes you to http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/9.1TODO which looks a lot like the information in point [1] but wrong/old. 4. On http://www.freebsd.org/where.html#helptest there is a link to "FreeBSD Snapshot Releases" for people interested in "FreeBSD-CURRENT (AKA 10.0-CURRENT)". But following the link takes you to a page where you get linked to "9-CURRENT, 8-STABLE, 7-STABLE, and 6-STABLE" snapshots. It is possible I'm just stuck in the past, but I've never been able to navigate the 'new' bowling ball branded FreeBSD site nearly as well as the older incarnation. And yes, I can eventually figure it all out... but this information could be a whole lot clearer. I design information presentation for a living, so perhaps I'm picky about these things, but I do think that confusion could turn people away from my favourite operating system. I'm happy to help if someone wants to enlist my assistance, but I don't currently have any commit rights on this project. Cheers Ari -- --------------------------> Aristedes Maniatis ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A