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Date:      Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:51:41 -0800
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        cem@freebsd.org
Cc:        Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>, doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r47757 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/versions
Message-ID:  <1695439.WmNAIbkeWS@ralph.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <CAG6CVpVjqcp_Gh_h69RhX=YqkYURPcsqh-j0bo7VooqoyBa1Jg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Saturday, November 07, 2015 01:15:53 PM Conrad Meyer wrote:
> Sounds good to me.  I'm new to this document, thanks for your patience.
> 
> Best,
> Conrad
> 
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:
> > On Sat, 7 Nov 2015, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:
> >> > It's worth keeping a placeholder entry around for 1100087 (maybe
> >> > "incomplete API change to sysctl_add_oid(9); see version 1100089") so that
> >> > people don't wonder why there's a gap.
> >>
> >> On the other hand, there are already big gaps between 1100081 and
> >> 1100085, and 1100086 was never documented.  Given the relatively short
> >
> > Not all committers are as responsible as you ;)
> >
> >> period of time (<1 day) between 1100087 and 1100089 and that this is
> >> on CURRENT, not a STABLE branch, I'm incline to leave it alone.  Of
> >> course if you're really insistent about keeping the 1100087 entry, I
> >> can re-add it.  (Or if you want to, go ahead. :-))
> >
> > I do not insist that you re-add it; you have done plenty already, and
> > thank you for it.  Probably someone (maybe me) will make a sweep to fill
> > in missing pieces at some point.

I've retroactively added descriptions for missing version numbers in the
past.  Even a simple note of "partial change, do not use" would avoid having
someone else adding a (likely incorrect) entry for it in the future.

-- 
John Baldwin



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