From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 3 13:22:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C02E737B718 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:21:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02689; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:19:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:19:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: Brad Knowles Cc: Brennan W Stehling , Jim Weeks , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failed In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:54 AM -0700 2000/4/3, Doug Barton wrote: > > > I realize that you don't want to accept responsibility for your > > actions, but please stop posting hear trying to convince us that there is > > some way we could have unloaded the gun before you pointed it at your > > foot. > > I know you don't want to hear this, but the reality of it is that > we really should be doing a better job of keeping the web pages > up-to-date with regards to things like this. Why would I not want to hear it? EVERYONE associated with the project knows that the documentation lags behind reality. In fact, not only have I complained out this fact publicly on several prior occasions, I have even *GASP* written documentation to cover holes in what exists. My DHCP and 2.2.8 -> 3.x version upgrade pages get hundreds of hits a month. I am working on a page that covers version upgrades in more detail, including information on how to do the 3.4 -> 4.0 upgrade. > In particular, when there is a major change coming and we know > that the necessary information is to be found in the appropriate > UPDATING file (or wherever), then we should change the web pages to > reflect the fact and point to the appropriate specific file. Then quit spending your time writing e-mails about the subject and spend that time creating patches and sending them to doc@freebsd.org. We can ALWAYS use actual help. Simply talking about what needs to be changed is a pointless waste of everyone's time. Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message