Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:25:34 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT Message-ID: <20010424092534.N1790@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200104241603.f3OG3AB06290@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:03:10AM -0700 References: <200104241603.f3OG3AB06290@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>
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* Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> [010424 09:04] wrote: > (Apologies to -doc people who have probably heard this ad nauseum.) > > Over the past few months, I've been working on a project that I've > taken to calling RELNOTESng, which is the overhaul of RELNOTES.TXT and > related files that we package along with a FreeBSD distribution. > I've been soliciting feedback from the other -doc folks, and it's time > to socialize this out to a wider audience. > > The main problem this is intended to solve is that there's a lot of > information in many different files, and not all of its is > consistent. For example, a list of hardware supported by FreeBSD can > currently be found in four different places (the alpha and i386 > RELNOTES.TXT files, HARDWARE.TXT, and the Handbook). > > What I've done is to reorganize and reformat all of the *.TXT files. > The new versions of these files are done in DocBook/SGML, which is the > markup language used for the Handbook, FAQ, and so on. [snip] > > I'd very much like to get comments from people. Sounds like some excellent work that was long over due. Go for it. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org] http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~slumos/on-netbsd.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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