From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 06:27:28 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 A620816A4CF for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 06:27:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.droso.net (koala.droso.net [193.162.142.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3287543F93 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 06:27:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erwin@mail.droso.net) Received: by mail.droso.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D936122856; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:27:23 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:27:23 +0100 From: Erwin Lansing To: doc@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20031203142723.GB72102@droso.net> Mail-Followup-To: doc@FreeBSD.org References: <20031203124353.GD82966@droso.net> <20031203135442.B82729@abigail.blackend.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="61jdw2sOBCFtR2d/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031203135442.B82729@abigail.blackend.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 5.1-CURRENT 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 14:27:28 -0000 --61jdw2sOBCFtR2d/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:54:42PM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > 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. > > > [...] >=20 > 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 director= y. > And something inside ports/ will prevent need of various repo access and > could be updated via a cvsup, etc. >=20 Neat, I didn't know that. That should be one problem solved :) --=20 _._ _,-'""`-._ Erwin Lansing (,-.`._,'( |\`-/| erwin@lansing.dk http://droso.org `-.-' \ )-`( , o o) erwin@FreeBSD.org -bf- `- \`_`"'- --61jdw2sOBCFtR2d/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/zfLLqy9aWxUlaZARAt/zAKD3i9ZagWNAKrCgeVe7Q7PBI8veuwCfVGGL ZRKWZJTbw0HldUae6gblQp4= =9+0W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --61jdw2sOBCFtR2d/--