From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Feb 28 17: 0:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F38037B41B for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:00:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020301010040.KWYE2626.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 01:00:40 +0000 Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2110e001512; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:00:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200203010100.g2110e001512@bmah.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Michael Lucas Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Official -doc freeze proposal (was Re: docs/35155: [PATCH] Misc corrections to the Handbook, chapter 2) In-reply-to: <20020226094226.B55250@blackhelicopters.org> References: <200202202000.g1KK08V36428@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020221115732.GA575@rhadamanth> <20020221170951.B30225@blackhelicopters.org> <20020222.085904.28781226.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> <200202221535.g1MFZx236793@bmah.dyndns.org> <20020226094226.B55250@blackhelicopters.org> Comments: In-reply-to Michael Lucas message dated "Tue, 26 Feb 2002 09:42:26 -0500." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:00:40 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If memory serves me right, Michael Lucas wrote: > I propose an official one-week doc/en_US.ISO8859-1 freeze for > everything except the release notes, to give translators a little bit > of catch-up time. OK, nobody has commented on this so far, so I'll write something. It probably comes as no surprise (since I've already written as such) that I think this is a good idea. I have no strong opinion about the length of the doc freeze, but hopefully some of the translators will give some input here. > The release notes are difficult, as the -src committers MFC until just > a couple days before. I suggest that we have a "best effort" relnotes > freeze. Basically, the relnotes maintainer will try to keep things > up-to-date so that updates during the last couple days are minimal. > Bruce already does this, but it would be important for his successor > to be as reliable. Thanks, Michael. I'm looking at the commits to RELENG_4 and RELENG_4_5 during the last release cycle. During the week before the final i386 builds (28 January), there were ten commits to the release notes (two of which had to be double-committed to the release branch), which were reflected in revisions 1.22.2.183 to 1.22.2.192 of new.sgml. In retrospect, many of these could easily have landed in the errata file, post-release. We might even be able to do a short, hard RELNOTESng freeze, but I want to know if this would be useful or not. Cheers, Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message