Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 17:05:18 -0400 From: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Remko Lodder <remko@freebsd.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FAQ acknowledgements page Message-ID: <20050512210518.GA76767@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <4283C3E4.7060208@FreeBSD.org> References: <20050512193908.GA75832@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <4283C3E4.7060208@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:00:20PM +0200, Remko Lodder wrote: > Michael W. Lucas wrote: > >So, I'm looking at the acknowledgements page. I have to say, I think > >it's outdated. > > > >Of the people who are named, two of them (jkh and wollman) last > >committed 4 years ago. Many, many people have contributed since then. > >pds has been gone for years. > > > >I see a few options: > > > >a) ignore the acknowledgements page, and enjoy how decrepit it is > > becoming. This is the default. > > > >b) update the acknowledgements page, going through the PR database and > > the commit log to get a proper list of names. > > > >c) update the acknowledgements page by deleting names and writing > > something along the lines of "hundreds if not thousands of people > > have contributed to the FAQ over the last ten years, and we thank > > them all." > > > >d) delete the acknowledgements page. > > > >Any preferences? I would say, in order: C, D, A, and someone else > >doing B. > > > >==ml > > > > C: > > And perhaps something like the Handbook? > > Welcome to FreeBSD! This handbook covers the installation and day to day > use of FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE and FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. This manual is a > work in progress and is the work of many individuals. Yes, that's decent text, thanks. > (Hm reminds me that we might need to bump the 5.X-RELEASE stuff) > > and please do not post to doc@ and freebsd-doc@ :) Uh, I just posted to doc@freebsd.org... did it get forwarded somehow? ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ "The cloak of anonymity protects me from the nuisance of caring." -Non Sequiter
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