From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Mar 1 1:10:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A6B37B41A for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 01:09:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from hukins.hn.org ([62.253.80.147]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020301090953.DCEW9422.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@hukins.hn.org> for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:09:53 +0000 Received: (qmail 87964 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Mar 2002 09:09:53 -0000 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:09:53 +0000 From: Tom Hukins To: Tom Rhodes Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , "Bruce A. Mah" , Michael Lucas , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Official -doc freeze proposal (was Re: docs/35155: [PATCH] Misc corrections to the Handbook, chapter 2) Message-ID: <20020301090953.A87015@eborcom.com> Mail-Followup-To: Tom Hukins , Tom Rhodes , Giorgos Keramidas , "Bruce A. Mah" , Michael Lucas , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200202202000.g1KK08V36428@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020221115732.GA575@rhadamanth> <20020221170951.B30225@blackhelicopters.org> <20020222.085904.28781226.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> <200202221535.g1MFZx236793@bmah.dyndns.org> <20020226094226.B55250@blackhelicopters.org> <200203010100.g2110e001512@bmah.dyndns.org> <20020301032142.GA46101@hades.hell.gr> <3C7EF912.30001@pittgoth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3C7EF912.30001@pittgoth.com>; from darklogik@pittgoth.com on Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:44:18PM -0500 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 On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:44:18PM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > I honestly feel the doc freeze will do no harm to anyone, but in fact be > helpful to the translation teams, or even doc hackers working on a > specific part of the documentation. This is a good point: a doc freeze is also beneficial to people who aren't translators. When we freeze src, release candidates are distributed for testing to reduce the number of bugs in the final release. As the docs and Web site are built nightly, a brief freeze will allow people to look for technical and linguistic errors. Just as important changes are committed with src when it's frozen, we could do the same with doc, perhaps with a small group of people who can approve these changes performing the same role as the release engineers do for src. This will reduce the likelihood of serious problems creeping into doc before a release is created. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message