Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:46:35 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, doc@FreeBSD.org, Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: docs/87445: comments for improvement of handbook/kernelconfig-config.html Message-ID: <20051015124635.GU99170@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20051015123615.GC1202@gothic.blackend.org> References: <200510142331.j9ENV8nA099971@freefall.freebsd.org> <1129364021.653.11.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> <20051015055837.2a3b9035.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20051015122036.GT99170@submonkey.net> <20051015123615.GC1202@gothic.blackend.org>
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--dv5GTjvIKRsTi/dI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 02:36:15PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 01:20:37PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > [ Moved to doc@ from some other place ] > >=20 > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 05:58:37AM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: > >=20 > > > Or perhaps > > > 4.X will be knifed from the handbook. And most likely, the > > > only people who will expect it coming will be those that aren't > > > going to stand in my way.[1] :) > > >=20 > > > [1]: Please don't take that as if it's rude, I'm actually > > > joking around with it. Cause I know that if someone > > > tried that, well, to core && doceng they'd be explaining. > >=20 > > Actually that's a great idea. There's no reason why we couldn't, like > > today, commit a copy of the current handbook to handbook4 and then get > > rid of all the crud from the real handbook. Same deal with the FAQ. > > The information is still available then, but we no longer have to tear > > our own hair own trying to maintain the documents. > > >=20 > If people agree with that idea, let's freeze a Handbook4 and stop > "supporting" 4.X in docs. (By "freeze" I mean no any new > addition/change beside typos.) Let's then create a HANDBOOK_4 (or > something like that) tag for CVSup operations. > We could do the same for Handbook5 when 5.X will be dropped. That's pretty much was I was thinking. Right now I can't think of any reason why it's a bad idea. Ceri --=20 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) --dv5GTjvIKRsTi/dI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDUPorocfcwTS3JF8RAthtAJ420Uxd8h+tXIzfYyTnrs4GJuWL3QCeMMvO xLLD2yrO84UZ5mL9xW7cmK0= =N69e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dv5GTjvIKRsTi/dI--
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