From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 13 09:03:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC7AD16A41C for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:03:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from diri.bris.ac.uk (diri.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA1E43D49 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:03:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.16.62]) by diri.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1DhkqW-0007bY-EQ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:03:05 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1DhkqL-0005Gb-Vv; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:02:54 +0100 Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:02:53 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Alexander Leidinger In-Reply-To: <20050613004704.3c0d8fe2@Magellan.Leidinger.net> Message-ID: References: <20050612154403.2b49d0d8@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050612194227.GA11407@soaustin.net> <20050613004704.3c0d8fe2@Magellan.Leidinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Jan Grant X-Spam-Score: -2.8 X-Spam-Level: -- Cc: Mark Linimon , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TODO list for volunteers (similar to the list of things for Google's summer of code) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:03:09 -0000 On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:42:27 -0500 > linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:44:03PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > I intend to write everything up over the next week and give it to some > > > of our docs people for SGML review (if nobody volunteers I pick someone > > > out of the blue and ask nicely for a review :-) ). > > > > I wonder if such a list, being fairly subject to change, might not be > > better suired to a wiki rather than being committed to SGML? > > Technical reasons: > If someone implements an entry from the list, it's not much work to > commit the removal of the entry from the list. And since we don't want > to have an endless list, the number of additions should be limited. > Since a commit requires a commit log, the removal of a non-sense entry > also comes with a reason (at least it should). > > At least the last part looks like a VCS is well suited for the job. > > Visual reasons: > You can use the power of SQML to render structured data, while in a > wiki you have to do everything on your own (with the typical cut&paste > errors and inconsistencies). > > Do you have any strong reasons which make the wiki a better choice? Is there a reason why feature-requests can't be integrated into the bug tracking system? -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 9287088 or 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Bolstered by my success with vi, I proceeded to learn C with 'learn c'.