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Date:      Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:49:12 +0200
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: docs/55526: Update the branches pic and ascii art for the releng article
Message-ID:  <20030814164912.GC1374@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200308141634.h7EGYXmh088187@intruder.kitchenlab.org>
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On 2003.08.14 09:34:33 -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> If memory serves me right, "Simon L. Nielsen" wrote:
>=20
> > On 2003.08.14 08:54:18 -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> >=20
> > There is also the branch ASCII image in the FAQ -
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/introduction.html#=
STAB=3D
> > LE
> > =3D2E Perhaps we could merge these two one figure e.g. in the Handbook ?
>=20
> Maybe.  I'm not a big fan of ASCII art for complex graphs, but=20
> definitely I'm in favor of eliminating duplicate information that can=20
> get out of sync.

I should have been more clear; I don't paritular think it should be in
ASCII, just the information which is in the graph currently in the FAQ.
Actually the information you have in releases.ps.

> > > Here's something I was playing with while trying to get some experien=
ce
> > > with OpenOffice:
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/releng/releases.ps
> > >
> > > Not saying that we need to adopt this document, but just tossing it o=
ut
> > > for discussion.
> >=20
> > I find it a bit hard to get the "big picture" quickly since the the
> > graph lines are "broken".  Just my 0.02c.
>=20
> Good point.  This is a problem especially near the right side of the=20
> figure, where we have parallel HEAD and RELENG branches.  I'll see if I=
=20

Yes, exactly.

> can connect these up in a non-confusing, non-ugly way.

Great :-).

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Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team

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