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Date:      Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:09:35 +0200
From:      Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: docs/87445: comments for improvement of handbook/kernelconfig-config.html
Message-ID:  <1129381775.1412.3.camel@dude.automatvapen.se>
In-Reply-To: <20051015123615.GC1202@gothic.blackend.org>
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On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 14:36 +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 01:20:37PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > [ Moved to doc@ from some other place ]
> >
> > Actually that's a great idea.  There's no reason why we couldn't, like
> > today, commit a copy of the current handbook to handbook4 and then get
> > rid of all the crud from the real handbook.  Same deal with the FAQ.
> > The information is still available then, but we no longer have to tear
> > our own hair own trying to maintain the documents.
> >
> 
> If people agree with that idea, let's freeze a Handbook4 and stop
> "supporting" 4.X in docs.  (By "freeze" I mean no any new
> addition/change beside typos.)  Let's then create a HANDBOOK_4 (or
> something like that) tag for CVSup operations.
> We could do the same for Handbook5 when 5.X will be dropped.
> Well, we could do the same as the Security Officer and set up a schedule
> for releases Handbook/docs support; this schedule will allow us to know
> when a HandbookX freeze will happen.

I like this.  The 4.x/5.x/6.x maintenance nightmare is driving me crazy.

-- 
Joel - joel at FreeBSD dot org




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