From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Sep 25 18:31:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 703B114CC4; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 18:31:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org ([216.62.157.60]) by mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.05.24.18.28.p7) with ESMTP id <0FIN00JCW881CS@mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net>; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 20:31:14 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA79611; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 20:31:11 -0500 (CDT envelope-from chris) X-URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~chris/ Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 20:31:10 -0500 From: Chris Costello Subject: Re: FreeBSD versions in the docs In-reply-to: <19990925224206.A25199@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> To: Nik Clayton Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Message-id: <19990925203110.D76486@holly.calldei.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (i386) References: <19990925224206.A25199@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 |Never trust a computer you can't lift. - Stan Masor `---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message