From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 12 10:08:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DED8316A407 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:08:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from niclas.zeising@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D21D13C44C for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:08:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from niclas.zeising@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so675989uge for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:08:37 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FSUuyoGzmlTOYg1yYsNOSvKsjQz8i6Z/IIW028oucfEdS/qdObm6GY5zrp8e21RMjEXBI4SRDGh0qnr414NpXNd+zL5mIEKA2ZKEhFxQiUgryFrDjoARNY/hYI+vPUFN6352z2+Qoxi24K3uSvACImRLbUnEL+wMlpf3eGYt3Nw= Received: by 10.78.193.5 with SMTP id q5mr131397huf.1168595014506; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:43:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.29.12 with HTTP; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:43:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:43:34 +0100 From: "Niclas Zeising" To: "Joel Dahl" In-Reply-To: <1168562996.1100.42.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1168562996.1100.42.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: The end of the contributors article 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: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:08:39 -0000 On 1/12/07, Joel Dahl wrote: > Today I decided to finally do what I've been planning to do for a long > time: move stuff out of the contributors article and instead place it > under www/. > > I started with the teams etc and you can see the results here (nowhere > near finished yet though): > > http://people.freebsd.org/~joel/wii/team.html > > So, why bother anyway? Well: > > - Better information about what the different teams do and what their > responsibilities are. Our developers are generally very confused > when it comes to finding the right person to talk to, for example > when requesting repo-copies or new perforce accounts etc. This will > hopefully improve the situation somewhat. > - The translation teams generally don't translate the contributors > article since it doesn't seem to be worth the effort. Hopefully > this will change now, since this can be quite important information > even for non-English speaking people. > - Email addresses are not completely visible anymore. > - This information does not really belong in an article. > - This is more up-to-date and includes a lot more teams etc. > > Feedback much appreciated. I'd be grateful if someone could help me out > with writing more descriptions of the various teams. Also, if someone > could triple-check the document for obvious mistakes, such as wrong team > members on the wrong teams etc, that would be great. > > I haven't really decided where to put it yet, or what to call it, so > suggestions are welcome here as well. > > It's late here and I'm *so* tired, so sorry for any typos... > > -- > Joel > This looks great! At least what you've typed up so far. Scream if you need a hand (or rather, two hands and a keyboard, but you know ;) ). About placement. I think it should be put either in the community section or the developers section. I'm not entierly sure which option is best though. //Niclas