Doc BoF at EuroBSDCon

Tillman Hodgson tillman at seekingfire.com
Sat Dec 4 20:07:45 UTC 2004


On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 08:55:11PM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2004.12.04 13:50:02 -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> 
> > An idea that I've been mulling: The cvs-src summary that's posted
> > occasionally to the -current mailing list might be worth emulating. No
> > need to explicitly manage a MAINTAINERS file or anything if, once a week
> > or so, a volunteer could post summary of who's been working on what and
> > what the mailing list has been talking about. This has more of a "human
> > sounding voice" to it and doesn't go "stale" (it only covers the last
> > week or so). It would also be useful for folks interested in what the
> > doc folks do, and would help with the advertising item.
> 
> Yes, somebody(tm) should do that... :-).  Of course there is the
> little problem with defining who sombody is...

If it develops that there's enough of a censensus that it's a good idea,
I'll talk to the cvs-src summary guy and see what sort of tools he has
to ease the effort required and consider doing it for cvs-doc.

-T


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