Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:11:04 +0900 (JST) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: joel@FreeBSD.org Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: The end of the contributors article Message-ID: <20070112.201104.113738010.hrs@allbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1168562996.1100.42.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se> References: <1168562996.1100.42.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se>
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----Security_Multipart(Fri_Jan_12_20_11_04_2007_932)-- Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org> wrote in <1168562996.1100.42.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se>: jo> Today I decided to finally do what I've been planning to do for a long jo> time: move stuff out of the contributors article and instead place it jo> under www/. jo> jo> I started with the teams etc and you can see the results here (nowhere jo> near finished yet though): jo> jo> http://people.freebsd.org/~joel/wii/team.html jo> jo> So, why bother anyway? Well: jo> jo> - Better information about what the different teams do and what their jo> responsibilities are. Our developers are generally very confused jo> when it comes to finding the right person to talk to, for example jo> when requesting repo-copies or new perforce accounts etc. This will jo> hopefully improve the situation somewhat. jo> - The translation teams generally don't translate the contributors jo> article since it doesn't seem to be worth the effort. Hopefully jo> this will change now, since this can be quite important information jo> even for non-English speaking people. jo> - Email addresses are not completely visible anymore. jo> - This information does not really belong in an article. jo> - This is more up-to-date and includes a lot more teams etc. It is good to make the contributors list up-to-date, but what is the benefit to move it to the www tree? And where is the source file? I think issue we have for the list is that this sort of information is scattered in the doc/www tree and the scattered information is difficult to maintain (remember a case of the mirror site list). So I think the direction we should go is to have a directory for the developers, build a structure to pick up necessary information from it, and leave the maintenance to each developer (like pgpkey). Maintaining such a directory in an HTML page is not a good idea---if we have active maintainers of the list it will work, but it will not last long unfortunately. Since I could not find the source file of your proposed team.html I am not sure how this page was generated, but if it was done by hand let's take account of the maintenance issue first. -- | Hiroki SATO ----Security_Multipart(Fri_Jan_12_20_11_04_2007_932)-- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFp2zKTyzT2CeTzy0RAkaRAKCmc8rUfnI1j/eA/GmmTGtwWFwcVwCgxfq9 wQIVK4ST7nzrZJ7UqoI4MCU= =Nw8V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----Security_Multipart(Fri_Jan_12_20_11_04_2007_932)----
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