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Date:      Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:58:43 +0200 (METDST)
From:      hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
To:        nick.hibma@jrc.it
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au, grog@lemis.com, hm@hcs.de, dfr@nlsystems.com, peter@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c)
Message-ID:  <m10wNKF-0000dCC@hcswork.hcs.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990622112214.25186u-100000@elect8> from Nick Hibma at "Jun 22, 99 11:25:13 am"

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From the keyboard of Nick Hibma:

> And as to the author: Writing docu while you are implementing something
> might work in a commercial environment where you want to be able to
> market something before it's sell-by date, but for hobbiests who
> basically spend the odd evening doing something, it is too much hassle.

In case FreeBSD wants to enter commercial environments, we have to behave
like behaving in commercial environments.

I know that it is current behaviour, much easier and obviously a commonly
accepted thing that code, subsystem and/or changes are not and need not
to be documented, but this is not a reason in itself for not changing this.

Also, i think that the argument Mike and others use: "don't complain for a 
lack of things, contribute!" - which i use and used all the time - is not
valid for this issue: at least i can't contribute because i don't understand
things (now someone could argue, that i'm wrong here ...).

The last thing i want is a flamewar on this topic and i don't write this
because i want to piss onto someones shoes. And i don't write about a
man page for "ls" or "more" but a fundamental change in FreeBSD's inner
architecture.

hellmuth
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