From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Apr 5 0:51:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8CBE15400 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 00:51:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990405075120.EPHP5752963.mta2-rme@wocker>; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 19:51:20 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Greg Lehey Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 19:50:18 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Another Installation Guide [was: FreeBSD Advocacy] Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: FreeBSD Documenters In-reply-to: <19990405165231.O2142@lemis.com> References: <19990405071708.EHEJ5596385.mta1-rme@wocker>; from Dan Langille on Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 07:16:32PM +1200 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990405075120.EPHP5752963.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 5 Apr 99, at 16:52, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 5 April 1999 at 19:16:32 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > > On 5 Apr 99, at 16:49, Sue Blake wrote: > > > >> Having decided to proceed, you've got a big choice to make. > >> Do you want this to be an independent effort, or a FreeBSD project? > >> There are pros and cons with each, but you can't have it both ways. > > > > This is something I may have missed before. Everyone seems to agree an > > IG is needed. We now seem only to be debating the form: should it be > > part of the Handbook or not. > > Yup, you missed it. I said it in at least 3 messages. . No, it's not that which I missed... It's this next bit. > > Does this mean that if the IG is not part of the Handbook, then it's not > > a FreeBSD Project? [this isn't directed necessarily at you Sue] > > Not to the same degree. Darren made it clear that he didn't like > doing it in the framework of the handbook. That doesn't mean that it > won't be gratefully accepted if he finishes it and does a good job, just > that it's not a planned project. I think Sue put the issues pretty well. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message