From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 19 10:49:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 815) id F26F916A4CF; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:49:40 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:49:40 +0000 From: Murray Stokely To: "Simon L. Nielsen" Message-ID: <20040719104940.GA95183@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20040719100354.GA90972@hub.freebsd.org> <20040719102831.GA33180@eddie.nitro.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040719102831.GA33180@eddie.nitro.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating an Admin Handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:49:41 -0000 On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 12:28:31PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > I would suggest announcing the change a bit in advance and the doing a > freeze for commits to the handbook during the change, to avoid making it > more difficualt than necessary. Good idea. > Since a lot of people expect just to look in the "Handbook" and people > have have direct links into to it, I think the notice of the change > should be published so as many people as possible get the heads up. > Perhaps even on announce@. Yes I think you are right. We should put a news item up on our front page, and I think it is worth a post to announce@. > instead of giving people a 404 error. I think it should be fairly > trivial to auto generate those HTML files. It would require doing > something special with for the build dir on www.FreeBSD.org, but I think > it's worth it to avoid confusing users with dead links. Yes, that's an excellent idea and I think it's something we could whip up in a perl script or similar. - Murray