Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:12:53 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org, danger@rulez.sk Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: RFA: link http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/ in docs Message-ID: <20061017181253.3814827f.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20061017205407.GB1019@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <20061016230035.GA10448@cvsup.sk.freebsd.org> <20061017125311.GH68213@gothmog.pc> <104436491.20061017215049@rulez.sk> <20061017205407.GB1019@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:54:07 +0200 "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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 <keramida@freebsd.org> > > To: Daniel Gerzo <danger@freebsd.org> > > 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 <danger@FreeBSD.org> 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 is right, there is a link to docs.FreeBSD.org where the handbook is available for almost every release. I think users can deal with clicking two links over the hours of trouble it is for us to maintain a handbook for every version. -- Tom Rhodeshome | help
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