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Date:      Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:06:59 -0800
From:      "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org>
To:        Christian Brueffer <brueffer@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC:  Release notes rearrangement
Message-ID:  <45634E53.1020609@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061121174416.GB4192@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
References:  <20061121040153.GA17933@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> <20061121174416.GB4192@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE>

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If memory serves me right, Christian Brueffer wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 08:01:53PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> [...]
>> To address these problems I'd like to collapse all of the MD documents
>> into a single set of MI documents.  For paragraphs (sections,
>> whatever) that only apply to given architectures, we'd simply add
>> in-line text indicating this, something like:
>>
>> 	[i386] Some sentence applying only to i386.
>>
> 
> Hmm, what I like about the current notes is that if I'm only interested
> in on arch, I just get the stuff that concerns this specific arch.  From
> what you describe here it sounds like this:
> 
> [i386] Some sentence applying only to i386.
> 
> [amd64] Some sentence applying only to amd64.
> 
> [arm] Some sentence applying only to arm.
> 
> [sparc64] Some sentence applying only to sparc64.
> 
> [i386] Some sentence applying only to i386.
> 
> Of course many items are general, but I think we want to avoid clutter
> like this.  Do you have something in mind for this?  Maybe put all the
> arch specific stuff in special arch sections below all the generic
> stuff?
> 
> OTOH, maybe I've just completely misunderstood you :-)

Hey Christian--

You understood me correctly I think!  Remember that only a small
fraction (< 10%) of paragraphs in HEAD's release notes have this
property, so I don't think that things will be really cluttered.

On HEAD:

tomcat:common% grep '<para' new.sgml | wc
     380    2598   24637
tomcat:common% grep '<para arch=' new.sgml | wc
      27     179    1852

On RELENG_6_2 (this is just an example of what a more "typical" release
would look like...I don't intend):

tomcat:common% grep '<para' new.sgml | wc
     111     780    7068
tomcat:common% grep '<para arch=' new.sgml | wc
       7      50     478

Maybe I should try to mock this up so we're thinking about the same thing?

Bruce.


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