Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:57:51 +0900 (JST) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: joel@FreeBSD.org Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: The end of the contributors article Message-ID: <20070114.015751.59745560.hrs@allbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1168633900.1082.38.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se> <1168562996.1100.42.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se> References: <1168562996.1100.42.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se> <20070112.201104.113738010.hrs@allbsd.org> <1168633900.1082.38.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se>
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----Security_Multipart(Sun_Jan_14_01_57_51_2007_090)-- Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org> wrote in <1168633900.1082.38.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se>: jo> Fre 2007-01-12 klockan 20:11 +0900 skrev Hiroki Sato: jo> > It is good to make the contributors list up-to-date, but what is the jo> > benefit to move it to the www tree? And where is the source file? jo> jo> You'll get to see the source when I have something to show you. Thanks. I'll wait. jo> > I think issue we have for the list is that this sort of information jo> > is scattered in the doc/www tree and the scattered information is jo> > difficult to maintain (remember a case of the mirror site list). So jo> > I think the direction we should go is to have a directory for the jo> > developers, build a structure to pick up necessary information from jo> > it, and leave the maintenance to each developer (like pgpkey). jo> > Maintaining such a directory in an HTML page is not a good idea---if jo> > we have active maintainers of the list it will work, but it will not jo> > last long unfortunately. Since I could not find the source file of jo> > your proposed team.html I am not sure how this page was generated, jo> > but if it was done by hand let's take account of the maintenance jo> > issue first. jo> jo> I've been maintaining the contributors article for almost 1,5 year now, jo> in case you haven't noticed. This won't change anytime soon. Yes, I know. I do not doubt if your activity would change. The matter I am concerned about is simply moving the contributors list to an HTML page would not help to reuse/centralize such scattered information (for example, we have some duplicated information in pgpkeys-*.sgml and the committers-guide, too). To me, your proposed change is to update the list (yes, this is great. thanks a lot!) but there is no obvious reason to move all of the related information in the source file to the www tree. jo> - This information does not really belong in an article. Could you elaborate this? As mentioned in the previous mail, I think this information should be in an independent database file, not belong in either article or an HTML page in the www tree. -- | Hiroki SATO ----Security_Multipart(Sun_Jan_14_01_57_51_2007_090)-- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFqQ+PTyzT2CeTzy0RAjjcAJ9mJoRdDeBcEYIWXZOmJwxj9rmoGACeJomM mjaoxc9fd7jWuPS+KPo/040= =0ACe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----Security_Multipart(Sun_Jan_14_01_57_51_2007_090)----
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