From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 09:34:38 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 42EEE37B401 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:34:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from b.smtp-out.sonic.net (b.smtp-out.sonic.net [208.201.224.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 230EF43FDF for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:34:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.kitchenlab.org) Received: (qmail 6543 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2003 16:34:33 -0000 Received: from turbo.sonic.net (208.201.224.26) by b.smtp-out.sonic.net with SMTP; 14 Aug 2003 16:34:33 -0000 Received: from intruder.kitchenlab.org (adsl-64-142-29-77.sonic.net [64.142.29.77]) by turbo.sonic.net (8.11.6p2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id h7EGYXx20656; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:34:33 -0700 X-envelope-info: Received: from intruder.kitchenlab.org (bmah@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h7EGYXmh088187; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:34:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.kitchenlab.org) Message-Id: <200308141634.h7EGYXmh088187@intruder.kitchenlab.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Simon L. Nielsen" In-Reply-To: <20030814162607.GB1374@FreeBSD.org> References: <200308132214.h7DMExm1062457@freefall.freebsd.org> <200308141554.h7EFsImh087611@intruder.kitchenlab.org> <20030814162607.GB1374@FreeBSD.org> Comments: In-reply-to "Simon L. Nielsen" message dated "Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:26:08 +0200." From: bmah@FreeBSD.org (Bruce A. Mah) X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1643692776P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:34:33 -0700 Sender: bmah@intruder.kitchenlab.org cc: "Bruce A. Mah" cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org cc: Marc Fonvieille Subject: Re: docs/55526: Update the branches pic and ascii art for the releng article X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:34:38 -0000 --==_Exmh_1643692776P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, "Simon L. Nielsen" wrote: > On 2003.08.14 08:54:18 -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > I'd make a weak argument that an article on release engineering > > procedures is the wrong place for a definitive list of branches and > > releases, so expending lots of effort on keeping this exactly up-to-date > > isn't really required. > > There is also the branch ASCII image in the FAQ - > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/introduction.html#STAB= > LE > =2E Perhaps we could merge these two one figure e.g. in the Handbook ? Maybe. I'm not a big fan of ASCII art for complex graphs, but definitely I'm in favor of eliminating duplicate information that can get out of sync. > > Here's something I was playing with while trying to get some experience= > =20 > > with OpenOffice: > >=20 > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/releng/releases.ps > >=20 > > Not saying that we need to adopt this document, but just tossing it out= > =20 > > for discussion. > > I find it a bit hard to get the "big picture" quickly since the the > graph lines are "broken". Just my 0.02c. Good point. This is a problem especially near the right side of the figure, where we have parallel HEAD and RELENG branches. I'll see if I can connect these up in a non-confusing, non-ugly way. Thanks, Bruce. --==_Exmh_1643692776P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE/O7oY2MoxcVugUsMRAgUdAJ4xp86ei7/bN1FIPMetuLoDm+DfQgCbBvbT f3FVmYtCeXpJiM8pKHZHv3Y= =OqJv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1643692776P--