From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 24 9:25:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 211AA37B423; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:25:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f3OGPYH07571; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:25:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:25:34 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT Message-ID: <20010424092534.N1790@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200104241603.f3OG3AB06290@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200104241603.f3OG3AB06290@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:03:10AM -0700 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Bruce A. Mah [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