Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:01:13 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading 5.3 > 6.0 buildworld failure now in libmagic Message-ID: <43974D99.7000809@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200512061941.31866.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> References: <200512051518.43896.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <20051206163732.K60888@znfgre.qbhto.arg> <4606.69.116.19.99.1133916617.squirrel@www.rfnj.org> <200512061941.31866.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
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Vizion wrote:
> Well I do not want to not thank those who have made the upgrades viable. The
> value of their work should not be underrated.
That's a step in the right direction, thanks. :)
> There is however a perennial problem that freebsd documentation has always
> been seen as behind and seperate from the development process rather than an
> integral part of that process.
You're right, however that is just "the way it is." Most of our really top
notch developers are actually very bad at documenting their work (I don't
mean bad at being timely with it, I mean that they are bad at DOING it), and
frankly their time is better spent elsewhere. The documentation is light
years ahead of where it was 11 years ago when I started using FreeBSD for
one simple reason. Interested users stepped up and helped make it better.
That's the only way that things improve in an open source project.
FWIW, I added a paragraph to the UPDATING file in both HEAD and RELENG_6
that describes why updating to the latest code in the installed branch is a
good idea before trying a major version upgrade. Hopefully that will help
the next person who stumbles over this same issue.
Doug
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