From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 15:41:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 425D316A422 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:41:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av8-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (av8-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B5743D5A for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:41:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: by av8-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 4CECB382A7; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:40:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.101]) by av8-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 291A83820A; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:40:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from t8o955p95.telia.com (t8o955p95.telia.com [213.66.32.215]) by smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EA7837E45; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:40:53 +0100 (CET) From: Joel Dahl To: Mark Linimon In-Reply-To: <20060224015854.GB16997@soaustin.net> References: <200602211929.k1LJTTAH060389@repoman.freebsd.org> <200602211556.34034.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060222011622.GB11099@freebsdmall.com> <1140617051.681.35.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> <20060222174523.GB64282@freebsdmall.com> <1140717189.681.22.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> <20060223193450.GA54855@freebsdmall.com> <20060224015854.GB16997@soaustin.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:38:46 +0100 Message-Id: <1140795526.683.14.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org, Murray Stokely Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/share/sgml includes.navdevelopers.sgml X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:41:05 -0000 On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 19:58 -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: > I'm not 100% sure that having different ways to get to the same material > is really all that bad. However, I agree the navigation hierarchy should > be as clean as possible. Agreed. > > My proposals below describe ways to make this material accessible in > > fewer clicks than yours and with less clutter. > > I think we can all agree on these goals. Yes, absolutely. > If we change "Developers" to "Development" I think pushing the projects > down makes more sense, and might shift the emphasis more towards the > process and the product (of interest to users) than the people (primarily > of interest to the people themselves). e.g. break the links up into > who/what/where/when: > > Development -> release engineering (when) > Development -> current projects (what) > Development -> developer policies (who) > Development -> development resources (where) Hm, I like this idea. I can probably spend some time on this if this is considered an acceptable solution to the previous mentioned problems. > The resources would probably only be of interest to current developers, > but it _might_ be to prospective developers. (I know that I read through > all those pages when I was figuring out if I wanted to get more involved.) > The policies IMHO are _definitely_ of interest to prospective developers. Yes, I did the same thing. I read _everything_ related to FreeBSD in some way before I became a committer. Standards, policies, conventions, traditions - you name it. Making these things more accessible is a good thing. -- Joel - joel at FreeBSD dot org