Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 07:42:23 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>, John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> Subject: Re: Maintenance of FreeBSD 8.0 Release Documentation Message-ID: <200910020742.23691.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20091002070921.GK37304@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au> References: <20091002070921.GK37304@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Friday 02 October 2009 3:09:22 am John Marshall wrote: > Who looks after the FreeBSD Release Documentation (Release Notes, etc.) > and what is the proper way for submitting update suggestions? > > Since I started testing FreeBSD 8.0 back in July, I have been bitten > three times (HARD) by different changes in Kerberos (Heimdal went from > 0.6.3 to 1.1.0). I have been reporting my questions, findings and > patches to -current@ but that doesn't address the documentation. > > I would think that the Release Notes would be the appropriate place to > give at least a summary of some of the changes included in the release. > If I look at > <http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/relnotes/new.html#CONTRIB>; > there is not even any mention of the Kerberos (Heimdal) upgrade: the > OpenSSH upgrade is mentioned but the upgrade version number is wrong. > > So, what should I do? or is posting this email all that I need to do? > I have not been able to find the 8.0 Release Notes source in CVS. I believe that the current maintainer tends to do a flurry of release note updates during the end of the release cycle. I think hrs@ is the current maintainer of the release notes. The live in the source tree under src/release/doc IIRC. -- John Baldwin
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200910020742.23691.jhb>