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Date:      Fri, 12 May 2006 18:24:50 +0200
From:      Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
To:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, doc-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en index.xsl
Message-ID:  <4464B6D2.5070308@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4464AFF4.8030506@freebsd.org>
References:  <200605120254.k4C2s3BS052028@repoman.freebsd.org> <4464020F.3000609@freebsd.org> <446403FE.8050908@freebsd.org> <20060512130211.GA89089@submonkey.net> <4464AFF4.8030506@freebsd.org>

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Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> If memory serves me right, Ceri Davies wrote:
>> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:41:50AM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
>>> Bruce A. Mah wrote:
>>>> If memory serves me right, Andre Oppermann wrote:
>>>>> andre       2006-05-12 02:54:03 UTC
>>>>>
>>>>>  FreeBSD doc repository (src committer)
>>>>>
>>>>>  Modified files:
>>>>>    en                   index.xsl 
>>>>>  Log:
>>>>>  Alpha has left the building. Add ARM and rearrange the list of 
>>>>>  architectures
>>>>>  a bit.
>>>> I wonder if the !alpha part was a little premature?  Yes, the alpha
>>>> kernel bits are gone from HEAD, but they're still around on RELENG_5 and
>>>> RELENG_6, and we're still planning to do releases from both of those
>>>> codelines.  The first release that won't include alpha will be 7.0, and
>>>> its release cycle doesn't even *start* for over a year.
>>>>
>>>> Just a thought...
>>> There are like two remaining Alpha users and we most likely won't gain
>>> any new ones in the foreseeable future. Though we are compiling releases
>>> according to jhb it isn't even clear they actually work on Alpha.  It's
>>> not actively maintained anymore.  It really has left the building and there
>>> is no point in advertising it on our homepage instead of on some random
>>> tombstone somewhere out in the past architectures graveyard.
>> That's as may be, but you really should have gotten approval from a doc
>> committer for this commit.  Bruce is one, he disagrees, you should back
>> it out.
> 
> Just for the record, I didn't even notice what set of commit bits andre
> has, and I would have sent exactly the same comment even if he was a
> member of doceng@ or core@.  :-)

I'm sorry for the drive-by commit to index.xsl and not contacting doceng@
prior to making this change. I just partly backed out the change by readding
Alpha/AXP.

> It's also true that the sun is still going to come up tomorrow no matter
> what winds up on the homepage, so I'd like people not to get *too*
> worked up over this, regardless of how they feel.

No. ;)  It turned into quite a bike-shed... :(

-- 
Andre




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