Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 07:15:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Copyrights and the current FreeBSD handbook... Message-ID: <199505101415.HAA07794@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199505101153.HAA28683@grendel.csc.smith.edu> from "John Fieber" at May 10, 95 07:53:39 am
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[Moved here from commit mailling list] > Rodney W. Grimes writes: > > > * > If nobody objects, then this will become the official policy. :) > > > * > > > * Please commit it as /usr/src/policy/library_versions > > > > > > Hey, I didn't propose to make a new directory under /usr/src. ;) > > > > We do need to do something like this. Probably the location above > > is not optimal, perhaps /usr/src/share/doc/policy. > > > > I have another contribution for it, but perhaps this is FAQ material, > > ``How to place code under a UCB style copyright, complete with a > > sample ready to edit''. > > By all means fire it off to doc@freebsd.org! Ahh.. I did but then did the next thing and found this: 19. Contributing to FreeBSD 19.1. Ideas and suggestions 19.2. Changes to the existing code 19.3. Contributions of new code 19.4. Porting of software > > Also, take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/How/handbook. > Some things are still a jumble, but both these topics could find > a home in Part 4: Advanced topics. Actually it is in 19.3, and there is already a file in the tree, we should probably bring up a core team discusion about that file as it was original taken verbatium from UCB, but several of us have found that some mild rewording is in order. > > I basically point people to the cvs FAQ and the manual pages, then a > > few days of hand holding. We do have another piece of policy here > > though, and that is about how we use CVS, modules, no touching stuff > > manualy in ~ncvs, etc. > > What is needed is an extension of the "submitters guide" that > Jordan wrote. It should provide an introduction to the source > tree, the philosophy of bmake, and policies such as library > version changes and the like. I tried to drum up some interest > in writing this among the people on the doc mailing list, but was > greeted with utter silence on the topice. Yes, this is needed, no I don't want to write it :-(. I will act as editor for anyone who does write it though. Now onto another topic.. in the bibliography section of the How/Handbook I see *no* mention of the O'Reily BSD 4.4 manual set, this is a major oversight, it is the bible as far as I am concerned for our code base!!! -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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