From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Mar 20 10: 7:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EC5D37B404 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:07:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (lcl234.zbzoom.net [208.236.36.234]) by pittgoth.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2KI9Tq33407; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:09:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Message-ID: <3C98D2B1.6040600@pittgoth.com> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:19:29 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes Reply-To: darklogik@pittgoth.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: swear@blarg.net, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/36042: [PATCH] There's not a good description of shared builds in the handbook References: <200203192120.g2JLK3o17280@freefall.freebsd.org> <15512.3992.905972.279159@guru.mired.org> <20020320000727.284a00c1.darklogik@pittgoth.com> <15512.44867.930654.886921@guru.mired.org> <3C98C11E.30902@pittgoth.com> <15512.51581.789216.308497@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Meyer wrote: > In <3C98C11E.30902@pittgoth.com>, Tom Rhodes typed: > >>Mike Meyer wrote: >> >>>In <20020320000727.284a00c1.darklogik@pittgoth.com>, Tom Rhodes typed: >>> > > The doc project accepts text that isn't even marked up. If the doc > project committers can mark up text, I think they can "fix" text that > doesn't adhere to what the author thinks is an antiquated standard. > If they can't, they can close the PR, and leave this activity > undocumented until someone comes along who'll leap through all the doc > project hurdles to write it up. The doc project many times accepts documents which need marked up, reformatted, has alot of whitespace (I myself have a document that needs marked up for someone, its just the time constrant and figuring out where to put it). But this isn't the current topic, the topic at hand is more of a space after periods thing... > > If it is closed without being used, I will then consider whether or > not I want to publish this on my own site. I loathe that kind of > thing, because that doesn't get the document reviewed or maintained by > the doc project, to the detriment of both the document and the FreeBSD > project. I probably won't, but will simply refer people to the PR > until it is obsolete. But I certainly won't be writing any more FAQ or > handbook entries. > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > I am in no way saying you cannot submit documentation, Gary just asked nicely if you could use two spaces instead of one to make things easier, and you have taken minor offence, if you feel that only one space is needed, then we can add the extra space later. -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.Pittgoth.com Gothic Liberation Front www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message