From owner-cvs-all Wed Sep 29 4:53:54 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B8C914E0E; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 04:53:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA18854; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 07:54:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Message-Id: <199909291154.HAA18854@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990928214517.D95465@holly.calldei.com> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 07:54:02 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Chris Costello Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/committers-guide a Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, nik@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 29-Sep-99 Chris Costello wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 1999, John Baldwin wrote: >> Log: >> Merge the ports committers' guide into the new committers' guide. >> >> Reviewed by: nik >> >> Revision Changes Path >> 1.10 +340 -0 >> doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.sgml > > When's this moving into books/? :) Output from wc (the English versions): 348 1294 11532 articles/diskless-x/article.sgml 464 1967 16226 articles/formatting-media/article.sgml 682 3721 26685 articles/multi-os/article.sgml 704 4250 31044 articles/mh/article.sgml 943 4252 35842 articles/new-users/article.sgml 951 3433 32268 articles/fonts/article.sgml 1115 5510 44881 articles/committers-guide/article.sgml 1835 9173 73534 articles/programming-tools/article.sgml 5998 23477 213806 books/fdp-primer/[*/]*.sgml 8332 39723 322113 books/faq/book.sgml 47454 179325 1712412 books/handbook/[*/]*.sgml As you can see, the smallest book is nearly 6000 lines, whereas the committers guide is only about 1100 lines. So, the CG would have to expand to about 5 times its current size before it would be eligible for "book status". :) Nik, does 5000 lines sound like a good cutoff point for decisions in the future about whether things should be a book or article? > -- >|Chris Costello >|Familiarity breeds children. > `---------------------------------- --- John Baldwin -- http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message