Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 22:16:53 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org, "finwepalantir@yahoo.com" <finwepalantir@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: offline Handbook versions still outdated Message-ID: <20070208211653.GH1131@gothic.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20070208203351.GD996@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <565369.93322.qm@web36702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20070208195406.GA996@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20070208202321.GG1131@gothic.blackend.org> <20070208203351.GD996@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:33:51PM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > Actually the docs are updated weekly (every Sunday) - at least they > are updated weekly on ftp-master. They are built more or less every > second day on builder.FreeBSD.org now since the build takes a while > (it actually seems like it currently takes 42hours...). > Hmmm, sorry but each time I looked at these docs the timestamp was not a under a week. Maybe the things changed recently or I always looked at lagging FTP mirror (I'd not surprised on this point). > If the docs are more than two weeks old something is probably wrong > (and people should poke me/doc@). I don't see a reason to do anything > special for releases since the files should still not be more than 8 > days old at the most (if things are not broken), and the docs doesn't > change that much... > If the update cycle is weekly it's Ok but if it's longer, it may be problematic to "broadcast" docs stating 6.1-R is the last version. And, I disagree on the fact the docs don't change that much especially in the localized versions where the "last minute changes" are important at release time. -- Marc
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