From owner-freebsd-doc Sun May 16 4:17:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD60C152CE for ; Sun, 16 May 1999 04:14:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) id MAA63015; Sun, 16 May 1999 12:01:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 12:01:43 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Greg Black Cc: Nik Clayton , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FDP Directory Reorganisation Message-ID: <19990516120143.B62097@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990513211458.B70767@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990515053146.27873.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990515053146.27873.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>; from Greg Black on Sat, May 15, 1999 at 03:31:46PM +1000 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message