From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 8 21:15:47 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 4BDAA16A401; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:15:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (bgn92-3-82-227-222-164.fbx.proxad.net [82.227.222.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C155613C47E; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:15:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (gothic.blackend.org [192.168.1.203]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l18LFj5h060833; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 22:15:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (localhost.blackend.org [127.0.0.1]) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l18LGsxw046887; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 22:16:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@gothic.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l18LGrwl046886; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 22:16:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 22:16:53 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille To: "Simon L. Nielsen" Message-ID: <20070208211653.GH1131@gothic.blackend.org> References: <565369.93322.qm@web36702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20070208195406.GA996@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20070208202321.GG1131@gothic.blackend.org> <20070208203351.GD996@zaphod.nitro.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070208203351.GD996@zaphod.nitro.dk> X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org, "finwepalantir@yahoo.com" Subject: Re: offline Handbook versions still outdated X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: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: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:15:47 -0000 On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:33:51PM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > Actually the docs are updated weekly (every Sunday) - at least they > are updated weekly on ftp-master. They are built more or less every > second day on builder.FreeBSD.org now since the build takes a while > (it actually seems like it currently takes 42hours...). > Hmmm, sorry but each time I looked at these docs the timestamp was not a under a week. Maybe the things changed recently or I always looked at lagging FTP mirror (I'd not surprised on this point). > If the docs are more than two weeks old something is probably wrong > (and people should poke me/doc@). I don't see a reason to do anything > special for releases since the files should still not be more than 8 > days old at the most (if things are not broken), and the docs doesn't > change that much... > If the update cycle is weekly it's Ok but if it's longer, it may be problematic to "broadcast" docs stating 6.1-R is the last version. And, I disagree on the fact the docs don't change that much especially in the localized versions where the "last minute changes" are important at release time. -- Marc