From owner-cvs-share Mon Oct 7 00:54:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-cvs-share Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA21861 for cvs-share-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 00:54:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA21770; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 00:52:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA10095; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:51:14 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA02251; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:51:13 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA13409; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:41:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610070741.JAA13409@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/doc/FAQ FAQ.sgml To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:41:46 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, jkh@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-share@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from John Fieber at "Oct 6, 96 02:52:28 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-share@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John Fieber wrote: > > Who guarantees then that the handbook will be maintained on a more > > regular basis? > > Nobody. :( > > As I've said before (probably in the doc list), I see the ideal > FAQ as a dynamic document addressing relatively narrow topics > with quick well defined answers. [...] > Ultimately putting FAQ type material in the handbook would be > counterproductive. But you're right, OTOH, the FAQ contains too much material that is of type `handbook', and should be merged there. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)