Documentation of major changes to the ports collection

[Erwin Lansing]

Hi Doc!

As mentioned on -developers, I've taken it upon me to try and see if we,
the ports people, can create a document not much unlike the Release
Notes from our src brothers. Thoughts so far are that it should be some
kind of combination of /usr/src/UPDATING and relnotes, where both major
changes to major ports (ie. GNOME) can be announced to users and major
changes to ports infrastructure (ie. bsd.port.mk) can get more attention
of committers.

The first thing to decide would be which form this document should be
in. My first thought would be an article so we both have an online and
an offline version. One disadvantage of this would be that the offline
version would not be updating along with an update of the ports
collection via cvsup.

I'm not familiar with doc@ procedures, so bear with me to get this thing
started. I already tricked simon@ into lending a hand with docbook foo
and procedures, so how do we take this from here ?

Cheers,
-erwin

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