Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 12:01:43 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FDP Directory Reorganisation Message-ID: <19990516120143.B62097@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <19990515053146.27873.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>; from Greg Black on Sat, May 15, 1999 at 03:31:46PM %2B1000 References: <19990513211458.B70767@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990515053146.27873.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>
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On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 03:31:46PM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> Speaking from the perspective of somebody who is new to FreeBSD
> (but who expects to be here for the long haul), I find a problem
> with the distinction between "articles" and "books" -- as I read
> the proposal, the only distinction between these directories is
> that "books" are longer.
Pretty much, yeah. I'm happy to drop the distinction.
> I quite understand the intention behind this reorganisation, but
> I fear that it may go too far in complexity if the "articles"
> and "books" distinction is retained. Of course, the underlying
> issue may be that there are too many entries to work well in a
> single directory. If that is the case, then surely it would be
> better to divide it up by some kind of topic-based plan.
I thought about a topic based approach. However, there are going to
be some documents that just don't fit under a single topic (the FAQ,
for example). Actually coming up with those categories is also a
hard problem, and will probably lead to people having to hunt for
a specific piece of documentation trying to guess which category
it's under.
So I decided against organising by topics.
N
--
There's some milk in the fridge about to go off. . . and there it goes.
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