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Date:      Thu, 8 Feb 2007 22:16:53 +0100
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.org, "finwepalantir@yahoo.com" <finwepalantir@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: offline Handbook versions still outdated
Message-ID:  <20070208211653.GH1131@gothic.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070208203351.GD996@zaphod.nitro.dk>
References:  <565369.93322.qm@web36702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20070208195406.GA996@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20070208202321.GG1131@gothic.blackend.org> <20070208203351.GD996@zaphod.nitro.dk>

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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



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