Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 09:22:11 +0300 From: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@cris.net> To: Mike s <god@yahoo.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd.org Message-ID: <19991228092211.A387@scorpion.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <19991228041517.23423.qmail@web506.mail.yahoo.com> References: <19991228041517.23423.qmail@web506.mail.yahoo.com>
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hi, [Follow up replies to -doc. Discussion does not belongs -stable anymore] Mike please send you next letter to doc@FreeBSD.org only! Thanks! On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 08:15:17PM -0800, Mike s wrote: > well the freebsd.org site is not what i want to > replace. I would be willing to > contribute to it as well. maybe another part of the > site ( e.g. newbies.freebsd.org ) Please check http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/newbies.html. Maybe you can contribute something there. > the different languages would be a problem being that > i only speak English > however, Nobody asks you to translate site. Your task - create very useful site (like FreeBSD.org) and volonters will translate it anyway. > mirroring the site will not be difficult if > it was or was > not incorporated with freebsd.org, Sure :) > i have mirrored the > php.net site awhile back > when i first started to learn php and the way they had > set it up was rather > simple using rsync to mirror the site and a cron job > to keep the mirror's up to > date. Me too :) As well as FreeBSD.org and apache.org and many others. > > If you look at the FreeBSD site as it is at the > moment, you'll see it's > > mirrored in sixty countries, and translated in to > five languages. > > I never said i wanted to replace freebsd.org. I have > consistantly said it would > be a seperate entity entirely. Now you guys are > opening my mind up to a much > larger project then i had in mind. Which was initially > not my intentions. Try to split this "larger project" for smaller and try to complete them sequently. If people find your site usefull then they'll help you. > Documentation for mirroring the freebsd.org site is > lacking majorily. > i attempted to do it once and was unsuccesful. Hmmm... What kind of problem ? I tried to rebuild www site from the scratch and download complete site -- it worked fine every time. > > That's a nice idea. I'd be interested in something > like this for the > > FreeBSD site that automatically included a link to > the outstanding PRs > > for a piece of documentation. > > This part i have almost fully completed the code for. > Making it work with > freebsd.org would need a lot of tweaking. Good example of not well planed work. > I think it is time for me to write another email to > recapitulate everythng that > has been discussed and also clearify some key points > of interest both on my > part and what others have suggested to me. Which i > will do tomorrow sometime. Yes. It would be nice. -- /* Alexey Zelkin && phantom@cris.net */ /* Tavric National University && phantom@crimea.edu */ /* http://www.ccssu.crimea.ua/~phantom && phantom@FreeBSD.org */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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