Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:40:46 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> 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: <20010110154046.A93855@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> 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: > > 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? Absolutely. I don't expect this to be something that we solve over night, and steps towards the goal are far better than no progress at all. I didn't mean for my 'vision thing' to discourage you (or anyone else). N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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