Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 07:53:39 -0400 (EDT) From: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, bde@zeta.org.au, ache@freefall.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-gnu@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/lib/libreadline Makefile Message-ID: <199505101153.HAA28683@grendel.csc.smith.edu> In-Reply-To: <199505100615.XAA06868@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at May 9, 95 11:15:31 pm
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Rodney W. Grimes writes: > > * > If nobody objects, then this will become the official policy. :) > > * > > * Please commit it as /usr/src/policy/library_versions > > > > Hey, I didn't propose to make a new directory under /usr/src. ;) > > We do need to do something like this. Probably the location above > is not optimal, perhaps /usr/src/share/doc/policy. > > I have another contribution for it, but perhaps this is FAQ material, > ``How to place code under a UCB style copyright, complete with a > sample ready to edit''. By all means fire it off to doc@freebsd.org! Also, take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/How/handbook. Some things are still a jumble, but both these topics could find a home in Part 4: Advanced topics. > I basically point people to the cvs FAQ and the manual pages, then a > few days of hand holding. We do have another piece of policy here > though, and that is about how we use CVS, modules, no touching stuff > manualy in ~ncvs, etc. What is needed is an extension of the "submitters guide" that Jordan wrote. It should provide an introduction to the source tree, the philosophy of bmake, and policies such as library version changes and the like. I tried to drum up some interest in writing this among the people on the doc mailing list, but was greeted with utter silence on the topice. -john === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ================================================ =================================== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===
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