cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook book.sgml

[Ryusuke SUZUKI]

From: Johann Kois <jkois at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook book.sgml
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:46:25 +0100

> Am 25.08.2010 21:35, schrieb Benedict Reuschling:
> > Am 25.08.10 14:25, schrieb Gabor Kovesdan:
> >>  Em 2010.08.25. 13:49, Gabor PALI escreveu:
> >>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:49 PM, René Ladan<rene at freebsd.org>  wrote:
> >>>> Since this list is ever-growing and thus taking up more and more
> >>>> space in the
> >>>> Porters Handbook, what about turning this list into a page on the
> >>>> website or
> >>>> maybe an article instead?
> >>> Or an appendix?
> >> +1 for appendix.
> > 
> > I like the idea, too. It's tedious to update the translated version of
> > the Porters Handbook just to edit these sections (which rarely need
> > translation anyway).
> > 
> > While were at it: are there more such documents where we could apply this?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> what happened to that idea (moving the version numbers to an appendix)?
>  Did any objections (from a hidden source) stop the implementation of
> this?  If not, I would say go ahead with it.  Because updating the
> translation of the porters-handbook with "just" the version numbers is
> really "annoying as hell" (as I found out this weekend) ...  ;-)

  I like that idea, too. I also feel that the translation of such an update
  is annoying as hell.....

> Related to that:  Most of my committs these days I are www-related.  I
> have already kicked out a lot of old/dead entries in the commercial
> gallery.   And updated several others. My next target will be the
> books/articles/links/... listed on the website.
> 
> Examples:
> - "roadmap to 5-stable" - should be deleted.  I do not think anyone is
> reading that these days.
> - "MH mail reader" - Should be deleted.  Is there even 1 user out there
> who is still using this program?
> - "CUPS" - should be part of handbook/printing (updated, if necessary).
>  At the moment is nearly impossible to find it.  I only discovered it
> yesterday ...
> - and so on. and so on.

  I do not opposite the deletion of the "An MH Primer" article,
  but I occasionally use this program.

Regards,
  Ryusuke
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