Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:58:43 +0200 (METDST) From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: nick.hibma@jrc.it Cc: mike@smith.net.au, grog@lemis.com, hm@hcs.de, dfr@nlsystems.com, peter@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c) Message-ID: <m10wNKF-0000dCC@hcswork.hcs.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990622112214.25186u-100000@elect8> from Nick Hibma at "Jun 22, 99 11:25:13 am"
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From the keyboard of Nick Hibma: > And as to the author: Writing docu while you are implementing something > might work in a commercial environment where you want to be able to > market something before it's sell-by date, but for hobbiests who > basically spend the odd evening doing something, it is too much hassle. In case FreeBSD wants to enter commercial environments, we have to behave like behaving in commercial environments. I know that it is current behaviour, much easier and obviously a commonly accepted thing that code, subsystem and/or changes are not and need not to be documented, but this is not a reason in itself for not changing this. Also, i think that the argument Mike and others use: "don't complain for a lack of things, contribute!" - which i use and used all the time - is not valid for this issue: at least i can't contribute because i don't understand things (now someone could argue, that i'm wrong here ...). The last thing i want is a flamewar on this topic and i don't write this because i want to piss onto someones shoes. And i don't write about a man page for "ls" or "more" but a fundamental change in FreeBSD's inner architecture. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 559747-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 559747-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de 22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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