From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 04:54:48 2003 Return-Path: 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 DB1E916A4CE; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 04:54:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.35.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDAA243FA3; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 04:54:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.9/8.12.3) with ESMTP id hB3CsgB0084836; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:54:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.9/8.12.3/Submit) id hB3Csgqv084835; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:54:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:54:42 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille To: doc@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20031203135442.B82729@abigail.blackend.org> References: <20031203124353.GD82966@droso.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20031203124353.GD82966@droso.net>; from erwin@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:43:53PM +0100 X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE cc: erwin@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Documentation of major changes to the ports collection X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 12:54:49 -0000 --BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:43:53PM +0100, Erwin Lansing wrote: > Hi Doc! >=20 > As mentioned on -developers, I've taken it upon me to try and see if we, > the ports people, can create a document not much unlike the Release > Notes from our src brothers. Thoughts so far are that it should be some > kind of combination of /usr/src/UPDATING and relnotes, where both major > changes to major ports (ie. GNOME) can be announced to users and major > changes to ports infrastructure (ie. bsd.port.mk) can get more attention > of committers. >=20 > The first thing to decide would be which form this document should be > in. My first thought would be an article so we both have an online and > an offline version. One disadvantage of this would be that the offline > version would not be updating along with an update of the ports > collection via cvsup. > [...] Release Notes live in src/, so it should be the same for your doc, i.e. in ports/, maybe in ports/Template or ports/Tools, or a specific directory. And something inside ports/ will prevent need of various repo access and could be updated via a cvsup, etc. Marc --BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Pour information voir http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE/zd0R81T1MWxkgcoRAkOUAJ9Rs3fJAaQWMrnioO+qCnvjRaoDxQCfakKi z9tJ4hUW1H+ujJ2ipj+Jvl0= =VfcM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC--