Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:01:24 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, hackers@freebsd.org, Dirk GOUDERS <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-ge.de> Subject: Re: My wish list for 6.1 Message-ID: <20051220160124.GH68989@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <1135090013.664.56.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> References: <43A26FFB.9080405@samsco.org> <200512190934.jBJ9YNhX022376@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> <20051220142254.GD68989@submonkey.net> <1135090013.664.56.camel@dude.automatvapen.se>
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--924gEkU1VlJlwnwX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:46:53PM +0100, Joel Dahl wrote: > On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 14:22 +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > > This is exactly the idea that I have been pimping to anyone who will > > listen for the last three months or so. I also think that it is > > advantageous for users who are using, say 4.2, to be able to find > > documentation for 4.2 without having to interpret a nest of "if you have > > 4.x do this, if 5.0 through 5.3 do that, else do the other". I don't > > think it's a lot of work to just branch the handbook (and FAQ > > if we decide to keep it) - in fact, for me, it would be a definite win - > > at release time, but it just doesn't seem to be what other people want > > done. >=20 > Yep, I really like this. The current mess is impossible to maintain > (and also impossible to read). Yesterday I tried to update the kernel > configuration chapter to cover 6.0, but I gave up since there are "do > this for 4.X, do that for 5.X, and maybe this too for 6.X" everywhere. Yes, that's my major concern. I find working on the current documents too difficult. Ceri --=20 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) --924gEkU1VlJlwnwX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDqCrUocfcwTS3JF8RAum5AJ42wFRlGaoYSGwjOPYaoIoFknG/ZgCeMSTe cGx8eKHywOhyoSOzd+tlQZo= =p5nc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --924gEkU1VlJlwnwX--
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