From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Apr 4 3:44:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net (goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF75737B7AD for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 03:44:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eogren@earthlink.net) Received: from blue (ip243.cambridge2.ma.pub-ip.psi.net [38.32.112.243]) by goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA03858 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 03:44:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <046001bf9e22$fa20e640$0200000a@dinternet.dyn.ml.org> From: "Eric Ogren" To: Subject: Handbook: chap 18 rewrite? Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 06:46:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi - For those of you who read -stable, you may have seen a couple of my posts in the "make world failed" flamewar. Anyways, in -stable I said that I would try to help improve the documentation, so here I am. I thought that one way to do this would be to re-write (or heavily modify) chap 18 of the Handbook, which is the one dealing with FBSD-CURRENT and FBSD-STABLE. Before I started, I had two questions (for now): 1) Is anybody else already in the process of doing this? I don't want to step on anyone's toes... 2) How wedded are people to the current chapter name? To me "The Cutting Edge" infers -CURRENT; -STABLE certainly isn't "cutting edge"; it just has the latest bugfixes. I was kind of envisioning a topology like: 18. Upgrading via source. 18.1 Synopsis [include warning about major release upgrades here] 18.2 Tracking -STABLE (bugfixes) 18.3 The cutting edge: -CURRENT [18.4 Syncing the source tree [CVSup, CTM, CVS] - maybe should be integrated before 18.2/18.3?] [18.5 Using make world? I'm not sure if this should be integrated into 18.2/18.3] Anyone have comments/suggestions/ideas? Thanks, Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message