From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 2 12:38:05 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 304C61065670; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:38:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01B088FC19; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:38:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A593346B2D; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 08:38:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.hudson-trading.com (unknown [209.249.190.8]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id EEF618A020; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 08:38:03 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 07:42:23 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20091002070921.GK37304@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20091002070921.GK37304@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910020742.23691.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:38:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Hiroki Sato , John Marshall Subject: Re: Maintenance of FreeBSD 8.0 Release Documentation 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: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:38:05 -0000 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 > > 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