Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 10:00:31 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, wilko@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELNOTESng update Message-ID: <20010108100031.C5107@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <200101061735.f06HZUg34503@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>; from bmah@freebsd.org on Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:35:30AM -0800 References: <200101051950.f05Jo0H24919@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010106001658.A70625@freebie.demon.nl> <200101061735.f06HZUg34503@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>
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On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:35:30AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > I do not want to pull the HW.TXT into the Relnotes. I don't think that this > > is a good idea. For me release notes are a thing that should be as small and > > comprehensive as possible. More static info, like details on hardware > > support etc, should be kept seperate. > > I was leaning towards putting everything in a single file, but my > enthusiasm for this is starting to wane. It sounds like you would like > the Supported Hardware list out of the release notes and have the users > read this in exactly one document, which would be analogous to > HARDWARE.TXT (and which would also contain the content from alpha/ > HARDWARE.TXT). Is that right? I think I could go for that, but I'd > like to hear from Nik and Jordan as well. There should be one master list of supported hardware. Ideally in the XML'ish format that I described in a slightly earlier message. That list may be incorporated into several different documents. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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