From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 17 21:28:34 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56310106564A for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:28:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (pancho.soaustin.net [76.74.250.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 341468FC08 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:28:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id D146A56252; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:28:28 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:28:28 -0500 From: Mark Linimon To: Dave Hayes Message-ID: <20120717212828.GA21825@lonesome.com> References: <20120717183221.298430@gmx.com> <20120717153505.42633535@bhuda.mired.org> <5005D181.8080709@jetcafe.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5005D181.8080709@jetcafe.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:54:02 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resistance to documentation? (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:28:34 -0000 On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 01:56:33PM -0700, Dave Hayes wrote: > I've been using FreeBSD since the 90s. My perception (over many > years of observation) is that the FreeBSD people most able to > document what exists and how to use it seem to also have the > greatest resistance to writing any documentation. I'll just note that over the past ~6 months, the documentation team has seen a lot of new contributors and new energy. So from my view, the situation is improving. mcl