Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 14:18:14 +0000 From: Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Official -doc freeze proposal Message-ID: <20020302141814.A98115@eborcom.com> In-Reply-To: <20020302071734.A82120@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 07:17:34AM -0500 References: <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> <20020301090953.A87015@eborcom.com> <20020302112006.Q56195@nathan.ruhr.de> <20020302071734.A82120@blackhelicopters.org>
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On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 07:17:34AM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > > My gut reaction is that a freeze is a freeze, and that we should > freeze for anything not blatantly, obviously wrong. Yes, this is the point I tried to make yesterday, but your description is more succinct. > Changes that do not directly affect the translation teams should be > allowed. This basically means typos. We should directly notify the > translation teams of these changes. I also think this is a good idea, but it should be clear how to "directly notify translation teams". This should be done in a way that both -doc committers and translation teams are happy with. > (Sorry to be pedantic here: we're seeing what a lack of ground rules > is doing to other parts of the Project at the moment. I don't want > -doc to have those sorts of issues. Nik is a nice relaxed team lead, > and if we can agree on these things ourselves he won't start to hate > us all come release time. :-) I'm sure there will be some teething problems with the first -doc freeze, but we'll learn from them. Your "directly notify translation teams" comment is one example of a procedure that different people will interpret differently. Hopefully nobody will get too upset as we figure out the best way implement a freeze. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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