From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 15 13:09:33 2005 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 D4E0D16A41F; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:09:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av9-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (av9-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 229E043D46; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:09:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: by av9-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 8996D37EBA; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:09:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.101]) by av9-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F69437E43; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:09:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from t3o955p99.telia.com (t3o955p99.telia.com [195.252.53.99]) by smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF5AB37E47; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:09:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Joel Dahl To: Marc Fonvieille 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> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:09:35 +0200 Message-Id: <1129381775.1412.3.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tom Rhodes , doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/87445: comments for improvement of handbook/kernelconfig-config.html 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: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:09:34 -0000 On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 14:36 +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 01:20:37PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > [ Moved to doc@ from some other place ] > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > Well, we could do the same as the Security Officer and set up a schedule > for releases Handbook/docs support; this schedule will allow us to know > when a HandbookX freeze will happen. I like this. The 4.x/5.x/6.x maintenance nightmare is driving me crazy. -- Joel - joel at FreeBSD dot org