From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Apr 6 2:41:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4719F37BEEC; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 02:41:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA63244; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:50:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:50:22 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Jun Kuriyama Cc: nik@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Creating a "Developer's Handbook" Message-ID: <20000406095022.A62492@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20000406011457.C78379@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <86bt3n7uzl.wl@waterblue.imgsrc.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <86bt3n7uzl.wl@waterblue.imgsrc.co.jp>; from kuriyama@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 12:45:34PM +0900 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 12:45:34PM +0900, Jun Kuriyama wrote: > At 6 Apr 2000 00:53:26 GMT, > Nik Clayton wrote: > > There seems to be a consensus forming over the past 24 hours or so that > > breaking out a chunk of the Handbook in to a "Developer's Handbook" > > (and probably a "Porters Handbook" would be a good thing. > > I don't have any objection about creating a "Developpers' Handbook", > but if you are planning to move some contents in the current Handbook > into new one, please consider to ease translators' work. > > As usually, please separate content change and structural change. Absolutely. I'll either write out instructions explaining what I did ("The first paragraph in the text is new, and will need to be translated. The remaining paragraphs are copied verbatim from foo/bar/chapter.sgml") or do it piecemeal, depending on how easy it is to describe what was done. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message