Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 22:39:45 -0700 From: "Jeff Blaine" <jeffblaine@mediaone.net> To: <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Handbook per -RELEASE Message-ID: <004901bffe9f$8ff7cc60$02a8a8c0@ne.mediaone.net>
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Hi folks, Has the group ever considered (seems likely) the idea of making version-specific handbooks for -RELEASE versions? Seems daunting, but at the same time, a Handbook that has outdated information (that is, not checked for sanity with the latest release) or is sprinkled with version-specific sidenotes could possibly be as much work to deal with as doing version-specific handbooks... (wow, that was SO clear). Obviously the latest release version's handbook would get the most effort as (for example) I imagine the 3.x OSes match pretty well with the current handbook. Once I get my FreeBSD box to stop crashing every few hours (*cough*), I intend to start poking around with the tools and such, and maybe, someday, I'll be able to contribute to all of this (regardless of the outcome of version-specific handbooks of course). I've always been a documentation fiend, have done stuff in LinuxDoc-SGML before (I know it's not the same as what you're doing), have been meaning to dive into DocBook goop...etc... So, thoughts...hmm, well, to release a version-specific handbook _with_ the actual OS (which seems like the right thing to do), a good amount of doc people would have to be following -CURRENT (I guess?). Pretty sane that the previous version's handbook would be used as a starting point and then just gone through chapter by chapter to check for accuracy and such... Anyway, just a thought. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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