From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 21 07:01:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D9F16A417; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:01:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av7-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (av7-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 966E143D8C; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:01:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: by av7-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 15F9E385EE; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:01:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.101]) by av7-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B94385E8; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:01:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from dude.automatvapen.se (81-234-214-163-no68.tbcn.telia.com [81.234.214.163]) by smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 823A937E4A; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:01:37 +0100 (CET) From: Joel Dahl To: "Bruce A. Mah" In-Reply-To: <20061121040153.GA17933@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> References: <20061121040153.GA17933@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:01:37 +0100 Message-Id: <1164092497.663.4.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Release notes rearrangement 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: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:01:50 -0000 On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 20:01 -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > Executive summary: Some parts of the release documentation > (specifically release notes, hardware list, and installation guide) > have machine-dependent (MD) versions for each architecture. The > current scheme was developed by me when we supported two > architectures, but this doesn't scale very well to the half-dozen or > so we now support. I want to rearrange the release documentation so > that there exists only one machine-independent (MI) version for all > documents. This would apply only to HEAD, no effect on RELENG_[456]. Yes please. This is actually something that I've been wanting to do for a long time, so I'd like to strongly encourage you to continue with your plans. No objections from me. -- Joel