From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Apr 8 13: 8: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.bart.nl (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3DC637B649; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:07:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@lucifer.bart.nl) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.bart.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA57588; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 22:07:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 22:07:46 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: Nik Clayton Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Creating a "Developer's Handbook" Message-ID: <20000408220746.A57538@lucifer.bart.nl> References: <20000406011457.C78379@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000406011457.C78379@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 01:14:57AM +0100 Organisation: bART Internet Services B.V. Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nik et al, -On [20000406 02:55], Nik Clayton (nik@FreeBSD.ORG) wrote: >-doc, > >There seems to be a consensus forming over the past 24 hours or so that >breaking out a chunk of the Handbook in to a "Developer's Handbook" >(and probably a "Porters Handbook" would be a good thing. I like the idea. >Unless there are any objections, I'll do this in about 36-48 hours. Well, I am not going to bother with the Porter's stuff, that's not my turf. However on the Developer's note I already did some planning and organising, which can be found at http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai/pdp/index.html I also wrote some other docs which I need to move into Docbook format (that was all before I got my commit bit). Neil and me are currently working on setting up a mechanism to document /usr/src akin to the GTk+ RDP project (http://www.gtk.org/rdp/). >If you think there's a problem with this, please reply to this message. >Don't worry if you haven't got time to put together a detailed response, >a simple "I want to talk about this some more, please wait" will do fine, >we can pick it up again when you've got more time. Well, I am for it. However, there are only a few chapters worth of keeping history of. I have been focussing more on mdoc the last time, but I am willing to undertake this challenge under your final judgement and fold it into the current doc/ CVS tree. Let me know about your take on this... -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator VIA NET.WORKS The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.bart.nl Is there a place deep within, a place where you hide your darkest Sins..? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message