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Date:      Sat, 25 Sep 1999 20:31:10 -0500
From:      Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD versions in the docs
Message-ID:  <19990925203110.D76486@holly.calldei.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990925224206.A25199@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
References:  <19990925224206.A25199@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>

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On Sat, Sep 25, 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
> -doc,
> 
> As various people have commented in the past months, various parts of the
> FAQ and Handbook have been targetted at 2.x users, and there have been
> various submissions updating them for the 3.x line.
> 
> The question has arisen as to how best to handle this.  Do we want the
> documentation to be targetted at one specific version of FreeBSD (and if
> we did, which version -- -stable, I imagine)?  Or do we want to be able
> to document as many versions as we can?  I'm conscious of the fact that
> as we update the docs for new versions we're obliterating information
> that's probably useful to people who have older systems.  Yes, they can
> pull the information about of the CVS repository as necessary, but it's
> not a particularly user friendly thing to force them to do.

   If it were up to me, updated documentation would apply to
-STABLE only.  The FAQ, which is already for 2.2, could be put
back in something like /FAQ22 and left alone for the most part.
/FAQ and /handbook on the website (which is what the readers care
about) will be 3.x versions.  I don't think a -CURRENT FAQ or
handbook is going to be too doable, do you? :)

-- 
|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
|Never trust a computer you can't lift.  - Stan Masor
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