From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 17 20:54:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF8016A403 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:54:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from simon@zaphod.nitro.dk) Received: from mx.nitro.dk (zarniwoop.nitro.dk [83.92.207.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB5C043D55 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:54:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from simon@zaphod.nitro.dk) Received: from zaphod.nitro.dk (unknown [192.168.3.39]) by mx.nitro.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31448302501; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:54:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by zaphod.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 3000) id F34B41141D; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:54:07 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:54:07 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: Daniel Gerzo Message-ID: <20061017205407.GB1019@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <20061016230035.GA10448@cvsup.sk.freebsd.org> <20061017125311.GH68213@gothmog.pc> <104436491.20061017215049@rulez.sk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <104436491.20061017215049@rulez.sk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: RFA: link http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/ in docs 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: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:54:10 -0000 On 2006.10.17 21:50:49 +0200, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > Hello doc@, > > I would like to ask you people, what do you think about the following > change: > > This is a forwarded message > From: Giorgos Keramidas > To: Daniel Gerzo > Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 2:53:11 PM > Subject: RFA: link http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/ in docs > > ===8<==============Original message text=============== > On 2006-10-17 01:00, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Some people don't like removal of some 4.X and pre-5.3 things from > > our documentation especially in our handbook. They often say that > > it's hard to find the archive of our docs, therefore I think this > > change might be reasonable. What do you guys think? > > It's a good idea. I don't object to this change, but... > > Since this is displayed on *ALL* the HTML output pages, we might have to > ask freebsd-doc about this. Do you have an example of how this looks in the built HTML? My initial reaction is that while I think we should improve info on where to find old docs, most users don't need them, so adding this to alle pages might be a bit overkill... Hmm, and now I see that we actually already have a link at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ to the old docs... -- Simon L. Nielsen