cvs commit: ports UPDATING

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 29 06:55:50 UTC 2010


On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:42:29PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> Also, as much as I am supportive of the idea of improving our
>> documentation, I'm not sure that the value of constantly revising old
>> UPDATING entries exceeds the cost of the churn in the repo.
>
> Maybe we should start trimming UPDATING at some point.

We should have been doing this for a long time now. :)  I would suggest 
that a minimal starting point would be to trim any entry older than the 
oldest supported version of FreeBSD. Personally I think a convincing 
argument could be made for a rolling 2 (or even 1) year window.


Doug

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