From owner-freebsd-doc Mon May 20 8:52:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D5E137B409; Mon, 20 May 2002 08:52:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unknown (lcl234.zbzoom.net [208.236.36.234]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g4KFpx4T020916; Mon, 20 May 2002 11:51:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 11:54:18 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes To: bmah@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Doc tagging Message-Id: <20020520115418.722633d6.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200205201540.g4KFeCZd038742@intruder.bmah.org> References: <200205200405.g4K456fp034778@intruder.bmah.org> <20020520111828.5ae920c0.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <200205201540.g4KFeCZd038742@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.5claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 20 May 2002 08:40:12 -0700 bmah@FreeBSD.org (Bruce A. Mah) wrote: > If memory serves me right, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > > > > > > According to the 4.6 release engineering schedule... > > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.6R/schedule.html > > > > > > ..the doc tree is scheduled to be tagged around 27 May 2002. This > > > is possibly subject to change, since Nik is (I think) still > > > traveling. At the last BSDCon, some of us talked about a voluntary > > > doc slush to make life easier for the translation teams, which > > > would last around a week or so. Nothing has been officially > > > sanctioned, but we're almost at that week (yes, it sort of crept > > > up on us). > > > > > > > You are correct, the time has come for a doc freeze, as ports is > > just about to get one... Lets do this realisticly, and from the > > 27th of May on all commits should be passed through a senior -doc > > hacker, and this be respected and treated in a way similar to the > > src/ports freeze. > > Tom, please go back and re-read my original message, carefully. > Somehow, either you misunderstood the two main points of my message, > or I failed to communicate them clearly. > > First, the doc tree will be *tagged* on 27 May. This means that any > changes after that date will *not* make it into 4.6-RELEASE unless > someone (usually this means Nik) slides the tag on some file(s) > forward. > > Second, I am not in any way suggesting that we need a doc freeze (in > the src/ sense of the word), which is why I avoided using the word > "freeze" in my original message. Realistically, the middle of the > release cycle, less than two weeks before the release, is not the > right time to abruptly impose additional requirements for commit > approvals. I wanted to people to keep in mind the implications of > their work on the translation teams, and to try to avoid unnecessary, > last-minute churn in the doc/ tree. > > Got it now? :-) Got it! So we won't really get a freeze, but anyone can just make commits following the idea of ``beware... the translators are watching you...'' hehe. > > Bruce. > > > -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.FreeBSD.org -The Power To Serve www.Pittgoth.com -Pittgoth Discussion Portal trhodes@{Pittgoth.com, FreeBSD.org} PGP key by www: http://www.pittgoth.com/~darklogik/darklogik.key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message