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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 1998 09:35:47 +0000
From:      nik@iii.co.uk
To:        Studded <Studded@dal.net>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Documentation plan
Message-ID:  <19980317093547.48332@iii.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <350E3177.8F52760C@dal.net>; from Studded on Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 12:16:55AM -0800
References:  <7061.890049804@time.cdrom.com> <350E3177.8F52760C@dal.net>

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On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 12:16:55AM -0800, Studded wrote:
> > > 1. I think that there is universal agreement that the first priority
> > > needs to be "up to the minute" pages where all important announcements,
> > > especially related to the upgrade procedure for -Stable and -Current
> > > will be posted. I think two pages is the best plan, one for each branch.
> > 
> > Yep.  These need to be both created and maintained on an ongoing
> > basis.  We've made a few false-starts at the former and never even
> > come close to the latter. :-( It takes dedication on the order of a
> > Doug White (-questions) or a Steve Price (GNATS) to do this
> > adequately, just to elevate those two to Icon status. ;-)
> 
> 	Ok, we need a volunteer. It needs to be someone with commit privileges
> to get the thing started, and then someone who can politely but firmly
> prod people into keeping it up to date. Unless I misunderstand, any
> committer can make www changes, yes? So people could be resonsible for
> their own "updates."  I think Nik would be a good person for this, but
> perhaps there is someone else interested?

<long quote kept for context>

I'll cheerfully do that, if other people will provide the content. Either
with content mailed to me directly (to the @freebsd.org address) or (and
this is probably the better approach) sent with send-pr.

I've got the time to commit the stuff, I just don't have the time to write
it (yet).

N
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