Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 20:03:25 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Cc: wosch@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Timetable for doc/ repository changes Message-ID: <XFMail.990712200325.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <19990712230859.K54911@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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Nik Clayton wrote: > Hopefully everyone's now had plenty of time to look at the script > I posted a few weeks back which demonstrated exactly what changes > are being made to the CVS tree. I've (I believe) calmed the fears > of the Japanese translation team that the installation directory of > doc/ja/ will be going away at any point in the near future, and we > are hopefully in sufficient agreement that we can now progress to > the actual implementation. We haven't heard from Wolfram lately -- let's make sure he's OK with this. (He's on the cc list, I know.) > In addition, I think (but would like confirmed) that John agrees > that sliding or renaming the release* tags in doc/ja/ is now not > necessary, because of how the tags are intended to be used. No, on the contrary, I insist upon renaming the tags so that they (a) are different from the existing tags, and (b) won't be mistaken for FreeBSD release tags. > However, there may be issues with mirrows of the FreeBSD web site, > and I will be contacting the site mirror maintainers shortly to > alert them of the problem. Just a word of warning from my experience as CVSup-meister: be prepared for this step to take a _long_ time. :-( > I estimate that fixing up doc/ after the repository copies have been > completed will take me most of an evening. Generally, my free evenings > in any given week are > > Monday -- Free all evening > Tuesday -- Not free > Wednesday -- Free all evening > Thursday -- Free on all alternate Thursdays (next free is the 22nd) > Friday -- Generally not free > Saturday -- Generally not free > Sunday -- Normally free > > Basically, this means any Monday, Wednesday, or Sunday evening are best > for this to happen (from my point of view). John, how does this fit in > with your schedule? Summertime is so crazy that I can't really generalize about the days of the week. I'm sure we can work out a specific date, though. John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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