From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 17 14:25:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792111065673 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 14:25:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gjb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from glenbarber.us (onyx.glenbarber.us [204.109.61.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2ACE08FC16 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 14:25:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 40772 invoked by uid 0); 17 May 2011 10:25:25 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO schism.local) (gjb@75.146.225.65) by 0 with SMTP; 17 May 2011 10:25:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4DD28554.8010203@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 10:25:24 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Niclas Zeising References: <4DD267A5.6050203@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DD267A5.6050203@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sections about ports software in handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 14:25:26 -0000 On 5/17/11 8:18 AM, Niclas Zeising wrote: > Hi! Hi Niclas, > Is there any interest in having sections in the handbook about > configuring various ports software suites? I was thinking about > additions for postfix, imap/pop3 servers, maybe nagios, and similar > often very much used applications. > The idea is to add sections about simple configurations, and then refer > to other documentation for complex setups. > > Is this welcome, or would patches to this effect be mostly a waste of > time? What do you think? > I don't speak for anyone else but myself (and certainly do not oppose this idea), however I think doing this might add redundant information to the Handbook, meaning, configurations that have already been documented by the respective software vendor. Maybe this type of documentation would be better in separate articles (or better off, maybe the Wiki) for FreeBSD-specific configurations where the vendor's defaults "don't quite work", rather than general How-To configurations. Best regards, -- Glen Barber | gjb@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Documentation Project