From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 9 23:53:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org 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 9960D16A41F for ; Sun, 9 Oct 2005 23:53:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: from relay.rdsnet.ro (gimli.rdsnet.ro [193.231.236.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07E8A43D4C for ; Sun, 9 Oct 2005 23:53:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: (qmail 17925 invoked from network); 9 Oct 2005 23:53:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.130) by smtp1-133.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 9 Oct 2005 23:53:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 18668 invoked by uid 89); 9 Oct 2005 23:53:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.tecnik93.com) (81.196.204.98) by 0 with SMTP; 9 Oct 2005 23:53:44 -0000 Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C186D115F6; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 02:53:40 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 02:53:35 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) Message-ID: <20051010025335.10d473ee@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20051009170105.GE22643@soaustin.net> References: <200510071804.j97I4jOD099219@freefall.freebsd.org> <20051009132205.6478a5fb@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <20051009170105.GE22643@soaustin.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.12 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, Mark Linimon Subject: Re: docs/87073: New article: Maintaining and contributing to the FreeBSD Ports Collection X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 23:53:49 -0000 On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 12:01:05 -0500 linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) wrote: > On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 01:22:05PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > Maybe it would make sense to cross-reference this in both PH (as PH > > is a technical document, e.g. answer very detailed to how but > > doesn't give you as fast the big picture) and Ports chapter in > > Handbook (both to encourage people being maintainers and to provide > > some better understanding towards maintainers). > > Absolutely. I think first I'll just try to get it committed so at > least we can be referring people to it. After that I think we'll > find things to tweak up in it, too. :) > As has been discussed (possibly off-list) there's stuff in the PH that > isn't technical and that stuff needs to go "somewhere" And stuff that isn't there but should be :) (from time to time) I'm thinking if we shouldn't impose documenting in PH the new things that go in bsd.*.mk's files (the things that are supposed to go in CHANGES). (don't commit if you don't document it in PH or at least provide a non-doc-book version so more proficient doc people can do it fast). -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect"