Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:31:29 +0200 (EET) From: Juhana Tahvanainen <hakuchi@www.liukuma.net> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My wish list for 6.1 Message-ID: <20051222142153.R1593@www.liukuma.net> In-Reply-To: <20051222014740.GZ63497@over-yonder.net> References: <43A26FFB.9080405@samsco.org> <200512190934.jBJ9YNhX022376@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> <20051220142254.GD68989@submonkey.net> <20051221161520.O1593@www.liukuma.net> <20051222014740.GZ63497@over-yonder.net>
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i think you got this one wrong. what FreeBSD-Handbook-General should include: everything that spans through all FreeBSD releases i.e. # rm -rf / (that is guaranteed to work in all FreeBSD systems) but if some future release stops supporting this, then its removed from FreeBSD-Handbook-General and moved to FreeBSD-Handbook-BRANCH.x (to all branches that supports this). ---J On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:01:37PM +0200 I heard the voice of > Juhana Tahvanainen, and lo! it spake thus: >> >> how about: >> >> FreeBSD-Handbook-General is rather fixed once ready, only >> maintenance needed is when some future release doesnt support >> something anymore, that is removed and moved to >> FreeBSD-Handbook-BRANCH.x. > > Difficult to manage. You have to remember or know which branches to > backport stuff to, and you can't then say "OK, we won't bother with > 3.x anymore, but Handbook-3.x will remain around not needing further > work for people using it", as future changes might not get pushed > back. > > It would probably be easier using something like marked sections in a > single handbook to separate out version-specific stuff from more > general stuff; that way, at least it's all in one place, and you could > just generate handbooks for any given branch off one source. Of > course, it can get ugly to look at, too.. > > > -- > Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net > Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ > On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. >
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