From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Oct 18 20:13:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A9D037B4F9; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:13:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id UAA11674; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:27:14 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: Peter Brezny Cc: "'Nik Clayton'" , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: How To's In-Reply-To: <000801c0392a$ea66f700$47010a0a@fire.sysadmininc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Peter Brezny wrote: > I do think, however, that after all the buzz in the doc mailing list, that > it may be very important to create a new subcategory of documentation. What about my anti-buzz? I like the "Handbook, Tutorials, and FAQ" documents. I even forgot about the papers in /usr/share/doc. If people want to add Howto docs, let them be placed under Tutorials. I don't think a new category needs to be created. I think what we have makes a fine superset for anything than people can dream up. This discussion is mostly about naming semantics. There is no need to add another naming semantic to a new category of documents where a perfectly good category already exists. > Steve Roome recently added some valuable comments. Freebsd needs a category > of documentation that is geared towards the 'oh crap it's broken how do i > get it started again' situation, which currently seems to be non existent. A category such as this goes way beyond FreeBSD and stretches deeply into a study of general guru-dom. > even call it freebsd step by step Or how about call it "Tuorials" and keep it within the current framework. The current framework is great. I love it. Don't change it unless some seriously differentiating positive value is added. Thank you, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message