Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 23:52:10 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, wilko@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELNOTESng update Message-ID: <20010108235210.C2699@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <200101082144.f08Lipa83377@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>; from bmah@freebsd.org on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:44:51PM -0800 References: <200101051950.f05Jo0H24919@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010105213719.A49975@cichlids.cichlids.com> <200101061700.f06H0Bn34252@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010108095815.B5107@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200101082144.f08Lipa83377@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>
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On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:44:51PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:00:11AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > > If you're changing it anyways: > > > > Didn't Nik say lately, that he'd like stuff be converted to XML? > > > > > > Hmmm. I remember that this topic came up at the doc BOF at BSDCon, but > > > I don't remember what the outcome was. Hopefully Nik will chime in > > > with his thoughts along these lines. > > > > In my perfect world the driver source code (or, at least, the NOTES > > file) would have marked up information in it about what was supported. > > We would then have some (mythical, and unimplemented) process that > > iterated over this information, building the list of supported hardware. > > This would (hopefully) make it easier for the driver authors to list > > what hardware their drivers supported. > > Hmm. Sounds good, and I think this is a great thing to work towards. > I'll freely admit, however, that: > > 1) This is going to require much more work (and cooperation on the part > of driver authors) than the (relatively) simple conversion of the > release notes and hardware list to DocBook. > > 2) I'm exactly the wrong person to push this, because of my > inexperience with XML. > > Do you think it'd be reasonable to finish RELNOTESng (along with > integrating it into the release-building process), and then try to move > towards the perfect world once that's settled down a bit? I don't want > to lose the personal momentum I've built up on the release notes, et al. > to stall while I (or someone else) goes away to figure out how to > implement the new hardware list. I support the idea of doing RELNOTESng first. Given the relatively few people working on things in release/texts/* lets not try to fix everything in one blow. If we feel bored we can always strive to create worldwide-peace ;) -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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