From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 15 12:55:16 2012 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 1FF5F106566C; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:55:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B65EA8FC0C; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q8FCtEKl040657; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:55:14 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q8FCtEc1040654; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:55:14 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:55:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Gabor Kovesdan In-Reply-To: <505445FB.9020102@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: References: <505445FB.9020102@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:55:14 -0600 (MDT) Cc: FBSD Doc project , www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: future directions of the documentation after the XML migration 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: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:55:16 -0000 On Sat, 15 Sep 2012, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > it seems the migration went more or less fine, the known problems have > been fixed. However, this is just the first step of the cleanup and > modernization of the doc infrastructure. The next thing I would like to > accomplish is renaming the files to .xml. For this, it would also be > practical to first clean up the very obsoleted pieces of docs that we > have. It is long overdue anyway and it would reduce the number of files > to rename. Besides, these contain outdated info, which is misleading for > users and just increase the build time. A similar list has been already > proposed by linimon@ but somehow we didn't go on to actually clean it > up. So I'd like to remove the following and all of their translations: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/checkpoint/ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/dialup-firewall/ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/diskless-x/ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/euro/ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/storage-devices/ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/version-guide/ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive/ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hats/ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/multi-os/ > http://www.freebsd.org/java/dists/ > http://www.freebsd.org/kse/ > http://www.freebsd.org/smp/ > http://www.freebsd.org/y2kbug.html > > Some of these are totally obsolete because of the topic, others could be > updated but they are that outdated that it would be easier to create > something from scratch. Please take it into account when raising an > objection. Will archived versions remain readable online? PDFs are static and require no maintenance.