From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 13 08:53:44 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 BEC0216A403 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:53:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av9-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (av9-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5452613C448 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:53:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: by av9-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id EF140384E3; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:53:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.92]) by av9-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A30A6383DA; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:53:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.199] (81-234-214-163-no68.tbcn.telia.com [81.234.214.163]) by smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7994D37E48; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:53:42 +0100 (CET) From: Joel Dahl To: Niclas Zeising In-Reply-To: References: <1168562996.1100.42.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:57:28 +0100 Message-Id: <1168631848.1082.19.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:53:44 -0000 Fre 2007-01-12 klockan 10:43 +0100 skrev Niclas Zeising: > 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. Hm. My guess is that developers looking for this kind of information will probably click on the "Developers" link when visiting FreeBSD.org. However, I imagine that first-time visitors etc looking for information about our management or how we're organized will probably click on the "About" link first. :-) -- Joel