From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Sep 30 8:25:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45ACE37B407 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:25:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.freebsdmall.com (www.freebsdmall.com [66.220.2.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB9B943E6E for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:25:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from murray@freebsdmall.com) Received: by mail.freebsdmall.com (Postfix, from userid 2074) id 51DE82E89B; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 07:55:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 07:55:03 -0700 From: Murray Stokely To: Christian Brueffer Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: authors.ent policy? Message-ID: <20020930075502.P58863@freebsdmall.com> References: <20020916211210.GC1674@unixpages.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020916211210.GC1674@unixpages.org>; from chris@unixpages.org on Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:12:10PM +0200 X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:12:10PM +0200, Christian Brueffer wrote: > About ten people have departed from the project and I wonder if they should > be removed from the file, since a nonexistant email address is displayed, when > these entities are used (if they're used at all). That's not really necessary. Being in authors.ent doesn't have anything to do with being an active committer or anything. It is simply a file that makes it easier to reference peoples names in the documentation; whether they are an active committer, a contributor, or someone who vanished from the face of the earth years ago. Removing the entity and adding that person's name into the documentation in all of the N places it exists is a very bad idea. Please do not do this. If there are entities in that file that aren't referenced at all in the documentation, then maybe there is a case for removing them. But you have to ask yourself what you are accomplishing. This doesn't improve the documentation one bit, and there are much more important things to work on, such as writing new articles, FAQ entries, or Handbook sections! ;) - Murray To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message