Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:06:51 +0100
From:      Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
To:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, doc@FreeBSD.org, Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: docs/87445: comments for improvement of handbook/kernelconfig-config.html
Message-ID:  <20051015230651.GA52278@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051015133220.GB885@zaphod.nitro.dk>
References:  <200510142331.j9ENV8nA099971@freefall.freebsd.org> <1129364021.653.11.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> <20051015055837.2a3b9035.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20051015122036.GT99170@submonkey.net> <20051015133220.GB885@zaphod.nitro.dk>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:32:21PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2005.10.15 13:20:37 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
>=20
> > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 05:58:37AM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> >=20
> > >                                                     Or perhaps
> > > 4.X will be knifed from the handbook.  And most likely, the
> > > only people who will expect it coming will be those that aren't
> > > going to stand in my way.[1]  :)
> > >=20
> > > [1]: Please don't take that as if it's rude, I'm actually
> > >      joking around with it.  Cause I know that if someone
> > >      tried that, well, to core && doceng they'd be explaining.
> >=20
> > Actually that's a great idea.  There's no reason why we couldn't, like
> > today, commit a copy of the current handbook to handbook4 and then get
> > rid of all the crud from the real handbook.  Same deal with the FAQ.
> > The information is still available then, but we no longer have to tear
> > our own hair own trying to maintain the documents.
>=20
> Wouldn't it be better to create a branch and do appropriate magic in
> the web build to handle it?  We already have magic that handles
> building the release notes from different branches.

I don't really care.  As long as users can access it without having to
checkout and build their own copy (i.e., they just need to go to
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/<lang>/handbook4/), it doesn't matter (to me)
how that actually happens.

Ceri
--=20
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former.			  -- Einstein (attrib.)

--h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFDUYuLocfcwTS3JF8RAhxMAJ0WDcctkbQ5vpVZr/yBBKnJq+pFwACeJOY9
T7Glll/NKynTJRyCH0H5J/w=
=RT6j
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20051015230651.GA52278>