From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 23:17:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740E116A4CE; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 23:17:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-67-119-53-122.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.53.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B03943D5F; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 23:17:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1EFC166E61; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 23:17:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 23:17:31 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mark Murray , Paul Robinson , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040108071730.GA53328@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3FFC03E5.7010305@iconoplex.co.uk> <200401071429.i07ETZMI068819@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20040107200838.GD86935@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040107200838.GD86935@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: Where is FreeBSD going? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 07:17:49 -0000 --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:08:38PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > The ports freeze seems to last too long with recent releses. Or > maybe it's just I've gotten more involved, but out of the last four > months (2003/09/07-today), ports tree has been completely open > for whopping 28 days. That might be technically true, but it's misleading and doesn't support the point you're trying to make. During this period the ports collection has only been frozen for a couple of weeks, and the majority of commit activities were not restricted for the rest of the period in question. > Porter's handbook, and FDP Primer, while valuable (esp. the former) > leave many questions unanswered. (I'm not going to further this > rant, but will gladly provide feedback to anyone who asks.) I would have thought the procedure to rectify this would be obvious: if you find that something is inadequately documented, or unclearly documented, then you need to make specific suggestions on what should be done to improve the documentation. We *need* this kind of feedback to figure out how to make the docs better from the point of view of the target audience. Kris --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE//QQKWry0BWjoQKURAiE0AKCkVjPwB+aZ2AiWuPx+vTFCjUfHXACg2rT3 jCZuXiHkxIWgPfMkOqgrLPo= =iDcD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g--