From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 22 12:31:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6DF716A41F for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:31:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hakuchi@www.liukuma.net) Received: from www.liukuma.net (www.liukuma.net [62.220.235.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE1843D55 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:31:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hakuchi@www.liukuma.net) Received: by www.liukuma.net (Postfix, from userid 1021) id 70D0C6435; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:31:29 +0200 (EET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.liukuma.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6498B63AF; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:31:29 +0200 (EET) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:31:29 +0200 (EET) From: Juhana Tahvanainen To: "Matthew D. Fuller" In-Reply-To: <20051222014740.GZ63497@over-yonder.net> Message-ID: <20051222142153.R1593@www.liukuma.net> References: <43A26FFB.9080405@samsco.org> <200512190934.jBJ9YNhX022376@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> <20051220142254.GD68989@submonkey.net> <20051221161520.O1593@www.liukuma.net> <20051222014740.GZ63497@over-yonder.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:45:49 +0000 Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My wish list for 6.1 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: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:31:31 -0000 i think you got this one wrong. what FreeBSD-Handbook-General should include: everything that spans through all FreeBSD releases i.e. # rm -rf / (that is guaranteed to work in all FreeBSD systems) but if some future release stops supporting this, then its removed from FreeBSD-Handbook-General and moved to FreeBSD-Handbook-BRANCH.x (to all branches that supports this). ---J On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:01:37PM +0200 I heard the voice of > Juhana Tahvanainen, and lo! it spake thus: >> >> how about: >> >> FreeBSD-Handbook-General is rather fixed once ready, only >> maintenance needed is when some future release doesnt support >> something anymore, that is removed and moved to >> FreeBSD-Handbook-BRANCH.x. > > Difficult to manage. You have to remember or know which branches to > backport stuff to, and you can't then say "OK, we won't bother with > 3.x anymore, but Handbook-3.x will remain around not needing further > work for people using it", as future changes might not get pushed > back. > > It would probably be easier using something like marked sections in a > single handbook to separate out version-specific stuff from more > general stuff; that way, at least it's all in one place, and you could > just generate handbooks for any given branch off one source. Of > course, it can get ugly to look at, too.. > > > -- > Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net > Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ > On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. >