From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 22 20:15:32 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C985A1065674 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:15:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32B528FC16 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:15:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbun3 with SMTP id un3so3103176obb.13 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:15:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=avZZl1PpOy0lUg25mH7kuqbQgpuvgxqY6f/l5ZZOGcg=; b=pjYlnwvjSdoVFutRnD6CQyNiW1kD1lHYU6U9R8ofqhMXlJorg9hAseSPwswKsGGC8e L0qid1VgkZH+UluYF7hBCEnPIuHUpnXzosnd+3NpbVMIrB/6eoXBk77jnk6q6/EBv8Vf anpxPuhuiTpcV3Bn6mu5oTWwD+S5yLpy7RjXs= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=avZZl1PpOy0lUg25mH7kuqbQgpuvgxqY6f/l5ZZOGcg=; b=NmQE2XNp7kABysnBNmNDv+yUJ/gHu8PUM4QaaEcRwU76UO51gTGulbRfN0+7bRIzRv jQrFhvBCnYepdVaNweGoVUX/J4qyn+KC2eoS526i8vUf7Q/RP2YDQB9oamMPhgUemk0O TyxkwQ6ImB8ILq2roXnZyPel+na+1sE/wWVmTxF4p8DAt3jILr6oyyhKVonIfOY6VO75 R47Bgs/Fg3dkZeKu7Y2pYXXsLKC6OeECjniYVZoaKC3rNsHPIUsEWugrbBaMi6S3RDwZ zCoOv4Mpm4Fo+9QyMti/8sL4184/1tX5GSowHOPe/vXApHE4LJ+8SQFG0W3X0V3q7vyr fTGA== Received: by 10.182.131.2 with SMTP id oi2mr3274399obb.43.1340396131081; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:15:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.125.70 with HTTP; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:14:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FE4BCAE.3020405@FreeBSD.org> References: <20120608083519.GA8252@lonesome.com> <20120608113104.GA1720@night.db.net> <20120612221505.GA77335@night.db.net> <4FD7C615.2020209@FreeBSD.org> <4FE4BCAE.3020405@FreeBSD.org> From: Eitan Adler Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:14:59 -0700 Message-ID: To: bcr@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkAtvnGsqyRUtSXb5wiXSiU2FY9xz3fq0UBDXh2rAm9MilEhSvEcmNxduP498Kk7C0A901h Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time for a fresh start, it's time folks 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: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:15:32 -0000 On 22 June 2012 11:42, Benedict Reuschling wrote: > I agree with Gabor's statement that we should wait until we are in XML > world. Otherwise, we would probably need to throw away anything that > gets developed in the meantime or at least require much effort to > integrate it into our (then XML-based) build infrastructure. I'm very > happy that we finally managed the doc SVN migration. Now that Gabor is > also working on XML in a separate branch, I think we are making > excellent progress towards a more modern doc infrastructure. Once the > foundation is solid enough, I guess there will be plenty of people who > are be willing to work together on a new FreeBSD.org webpage. Not at all. Making a mockup does not touch our infrastructure at all. Gabor's work, while quite useful and appreciated, is completely unrelated. > These things take time, but the webpages are not broken at the moment, > just outdated. Hence a replacement should not be our top priority (at > least, it's not mine). However, I would be interested to see some design > studies if someone is interested in doing them to see what can be done. Agreed. It isn't urgent "unbreak it now", but if we can, we do need to update it. -- Eitan Adler