From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Dec 23 2: 4:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C22E11560E; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 02:04:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA03311; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 20:01:13 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 20:01:12 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Motoyuki Konno Cc: doc@freebsd.org, Neil Blakey-Milner , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/releases/3.4R errata.sgml Message-ID: <19991222200112.H14739@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <199912210849.AAA27908@freefall.freebsd.org> <19991221103356.A32887@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <199912211319.WAA45562@mail.snipe.rim.or.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199912211319.WAA45562@mail.snipe.rim.or.jp>; from Motoyuki Konno on Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 10:19:49PM +0900 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 10:19:49PM +0900, Motoyuki Konno wrote: > o As FreeBSD committers cannot edit the file of FTP sites. > > o How about translated versions? on FTP site or WWW site? > If English version is on FTP and translated versions are on WWW, > it makes more complcated, I think. > If both English version and translated versions are on FTP, > how we (doc committers) edit the files on FTP site? > > o Since files on FTP sites does not exists in CVS repository, > Translation teams have difficulty to know how/when the file > is modified. For example, Japanese doc team uses a tool > which compare the /www/en and /www/ja directory of CVS repository. > > o On the FTP site, files of the old releases will be deleted very soon. > I think release notes of old -RELEASEs are very important. Good points. However, the ERRATA and other texts are in the repository, under src/release/texts. What's missing (I think) is a mechanism to automatically copy these files over to the FTP site (and the appropriate directory of the site) when they are committed to. N -- If you want to imagine the future, imagine a tennis shoe stamping on a penguin's face forever. --- with apologies to George Orwell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message