Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 15:31:46 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FDP Directory Reorganisation Message-ID: <19990515053146.27873.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <19990513211458.B70767@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> of Thu, 13 May 1999 21:14:58 %2B0100 References: <19990513211458.B70767@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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> Migrate to a new directory structure that follows this layout; > doc/ > <lang>/ > <charset>/ > articles/ > fonts/ > ... > books/ > FAQ/ > FDP-primer/ > printing/ > ... > man/ > ... > share/ > sgml/ > share/ > ... > share/ > sgml/ > ... > mk/ > ... Speaking from the perspective of somebody who is new to FreeBSD (but who expects to be here for the long haul), I find a problem with the distinction between "articles" and "books" -- as I read the proposal, the only distinction between these directories is that "books" are longer. To me, this is an artificial distinction. If all the "books" and "articles" are a similar set of documents -- some longer and some shorter, some more tutorial and some less so -- then surely they could all live in one directory as this would make the task of finding the document that you wanted much simpler. I quite understand the intention behind this reorganisation, but I fear that it may go too far in complexity if the "articles" and "books" distinction is retained. Of course, the underlying issue may be that there are too many entries to work well in a single directory. If that is the case, then surely it would be better to divide it up by some kind of topic-based plan. -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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