From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 18 10:20: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77BA737B6FA for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id KAA86640; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200007181720.KAA86640@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Brooks Davis Subject: Re: docs/20009: [PATCH] the FAQ needs an entry on bikesheds Reply-To: Brooks Davis Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/20009; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Brooks Davis To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/20009: [PATCH] the FAQ needs an entry on bikesheds Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:10:33 -0700 On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 06:49:03PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:13:54 MST, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net wrote: > > People are confused by all the refrences on hackers, etc. to the color > > of bikesheds. There should be a FAQ about this. > > Personally, I'd just give a reference to phk's original message. The problem with that is that it won't work in print on offline. I don't think it's very helpful to have FAQ entries that don't directly give some sort of useful answer unless it's really not possiable. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message