Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 22:19:49 +0900 From: Motoyuki Konno <motoyuki@snipe.rim.or.jp> To: doc@freebsd.org Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/releases/3.4R errata.sgml Message-ID: <199912211319.WAA45562@mail.snipe.rim.or.jp> References: <199912210849.AAA27908@freefall.freebsd.org> <19991221103356.A32887@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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Hi,
Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> wrote:
> While we're here -- it strikes me as being silly to maintain two copies
> of the release notes and the errata, one on the FTP site and one on the
> web site. It makes maintenance more complicated, and it's one more thing
> to break.
>
> I'd be happy to see the website just link straight to the FTP'able
> release notes and errata, rather than trying to 'pretty them up' with
> some HTML around them.
o As FreeBSD committers cannot edit the file of FTP sites.
o How about translated versions? on FTP site or WWW site?
If English version is on FTP and translated versions are on WWW,
it makes more complcated, I think.
If both English version and translated versions are on FTP,
how we (doc committers) edit the files on FTP site?
o Since files on FTP sites does not exists in CVS repository,
Translation teams have difficulty to know how/when the file
is modified. For example, Japanese doc team uses a tool
which compare the /www/en and /www/ja directory of CVS repository.
o On the FTP site, files of the old releases will be deleted very soon.
I think release notes of old -RELEASEs are very important.
> Thoughts?
I have a plan.
1. Put the FTP-site version of RELEASE NOTES and ERRATA into CVS
repository ( for example, /www/ftp/X.X-RELEASE/ ).
2. Modify the /www/(en|ja|...)/release/X.XR/Makefile.
Current: relnotes.sgml -> relnotes.html
errata.sgml -> errata.html
Fix: /www/ftp/X.X-RELEASE/RELNOTES.TXT -> relnotes.html
/www/ftp/X.X-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT -> errata.html
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