From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 16 04:02:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA20670 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 04:02:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from megaweapon.zigg.com (tcgr1-50.dialup.alliance.net [207.74.43.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA20598 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 04:01:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Received: from varda.zigg.com (varda.zigg.com [192.168.0.2]) by megaweapon.zigg.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA29965 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 07:02:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@megaweapon.zigg.com) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 07:01:44 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Behrens To: Studded Subject: Re: Documentation plan? In-Reply-To: <350CF5E6.5DD147F5@dal.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Studded wrote: > 1. I think that there is universal agreement that the first priority > needs to be "up to the minute" pages where all important announcements, > especially related to the upgrade procedure for -Stable and -Current > will be posted. I think two pages is the best plan, one for each branch. > I think that if we can get someone to make a framework template (as in a > duplicate of template that the other pages are based on) then each > person who commits a big change (like the new slice code) can put up a > blurb about it and amend as necessary. Then we train people to use this > page as a first resource for important news. For example the committer > who makes the change can post to the appropriate list something to the > effect of, "I just made an important change to the foo code, details can > be > found on http://www.freebsd.org/stable-news.html." (Name/URL for the > page is open to improvement. :) This is definitely something I'd shoot for, if for nothing else to make it a resource that you can say, "hey! this is what I need to do to cvsup 2.0.5 to 4.2.6" by reading through the file as it collects. :) Maybe even segregate it into version bits. I'd be happy to maintain such an animal by watching -stable, at least... of course zigg.com has wimpy bandwidth, so I can't put it up here. :) Matt Behrens | James McDougal dies in prison on March http://www.zigg.com/ | 9, 1998. The government says "cardiac Chanop Script Coordinator | arrest". Why doesn't anyone remember World-Wide FreeNet IRC Network | Vince Foster? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message