From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Nov 18 11:23: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 001A41577A; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:22:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA04246; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 19:06:01 GMT (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA93634; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 08:19:17 GMT (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 08:19:17 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: Alexey Zelkin , Nik Clayton , doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tutorials Message-ID: <19991118081917.D93488@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19991115173853.A6833@scorpion.crimea.ua> <19991115201733.B19819@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <19991116080341.A92155@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19991116204509.A99933@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <19991117204338.B17330@scorpion.crimea.ua> <19991117203140.C18826@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19991117203140.C18826@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai on Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 08:31:40PM +0100 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 08:31:40PM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > >> So be my guest. It wouldn't hinder me. I think I am going to import > >> the 2.x DDWG into my document as 2.x reference. Anyone know how to do a > >> repo-cpoy? =) > > > >Why do you need repo-copy ? You wanna save history of development ? > > For myself. That and I want to know how it is done. Ah, I see. So if you're new document was going to be .../articles/writing-device-drivers/article.sgml (for example) then you want the existing tutorials/ddwg/ddwg.sgml copied in to place first. OK, we could do it. But if you're document is going to be a complete rewrite then with your first commit you will be deleting all the old lines and adding in new ones. This isn't particularly useful from a CVS historian point of view, because the diff will be huge. Keep in mind that anyone that's in a position to see the history for your new document should be in a position to see the history for the old document as well. You might want to include a URL to the CVSWeb interface for the old document in yours. > >As I can understand DDWG will be completely rewriten, therefore we > >can remove current tutorials/ddwg and import new ddwg (for FreeBSD 3.x/4.x) > >then (and to new place). > > As I said above. Be my guest. The new DDWG will be 2.x, 3.x and 4.x as > still a lot of people seem to want to support 2.x and I hope to provide > migrating tips. That's good news. Perhaps we could use this article to prototype the new mechanism for including OS version specific information in the documentation? > >I am going to remove doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/tutorials. Any objections ? > > Not from my side. Nope, go for it. N -- If you want to imagine the future, imagine a tennis shoe stamping on a penguin's face forever. --- with apologies to George Orwell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message