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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

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