From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Mar 25 8:35:12 2003 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 8F4FB37B41C for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:35:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA98443F93 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:35:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (electron.centtech.com [204.177.173.173]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h2PGZ356008208; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:35:03 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3E808536.8040602@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:35:02 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael W . Lucas" Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Axing the FAQ's 2.2.X support? References: <20030325101720.A75278@blackhelicopters.org> <3E807936.3090800@centtech.com> <20030325104828.A75511@blackhelicopters.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-28.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) 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 Michael W . Lucas wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:43:50AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > >>Michael W . Lucas wrote: >> >>>Guys, >>> >>>When 4.0 came out, we axed FreeBSD 2.1 from the FAQ. >>> >>>5.0 is out. I suggest that we do the same for FreeBSD 2.2. I don't >>>believe any new user is using 2.2 out there, and we no longer even >>>pretend to support it. >>> >>>For context, 3.0 was released almost five years ago... >>> >>>Comments? >> >>Good point.. I say get your axe out. I'm almost tempted to say whack >>3.X stuff too.. > > > Tempting, yes. And it would make life easier. But I suspect we still > have a number of 3.x users out there, poor bastards. > > At once point there was discussion of having an all-signing, > all-dancing, all-knowing FAQ build system that would allow us to build > version-specific FAQs. This would be ideal. While nothing has ever > happened with that, if someone feels ambitious this is the time to > take it on. :-) It would probably be best to have a "general" FAQ with non-version specific stuff, and then the separate FAQs for the different versions. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message