Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 20:31:10 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD versions in the docs Message-ID: <19990925203110.D76486@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <19990925224206.A25199@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990925224206.A25199@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Sat, Sep 25, 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > -doc, > > As various people have commented in the past months, various parts of the > FAQ and Handbook have been targetted at 2.x users, and there have been > various submissions updating them for the 3.x line. > > The question has arisen as to how best to handle this. Do we want the > documentation to be targetted at one specific version of FreeBSD (and if > we did, which version -- -stable, I imagine)? Or do we want to be able > to document as many versions as we can? I'm conscious of the fact that > as we update the docs for new versions we're obliterating information > that's probably useful to people who have older systems. Yes, they can > pull the information about of the CVS repository as necessary, but it's > not a particularly user friendly thing to force them to do. If it were up to me, updated documentation would apply to -STABLE only. The FAQ, which is already for 2.2, could be put back in something like /FAQ22 and left alone for the most part. /FAQ and /handbook on the website (which is what the readers care about) will be 3.x versions. I don't think a -CURRENT FAQ or handbook is going to be too doable, do you? :) -- |Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> |Never trust a computer you can't lift. - Stan Masor `---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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