Creating an Admin Handbook

[Murray Stokely]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 12:28:31PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> I would suggest announcing the change a bit in advance and the doing a
> freeze for commits to the handbook during the change, to avoid making it
> more difficualt than necessary.

Good idea.

> Since a lot of people expect just to look in the "Handbook" and people
> have have direct links into to it, I think the notice of the change
> should be published so as many people as possible get the heads up.
> Perhaps even on announce at .

Yes I think you are right.  We should put a news item up on our front
page, and I think it is worth a post to announce at .

> instead of giving people a 404 error.  I think it should be fairly
> trivial to auto generate those HTML files.  It would require doing
> something special with for the build dir on www.FreeBSD.org, but I think
> it's worth it to avoid confusing users with dead links.

Yes, that's an excellent idea and I think it's something we could whip
up in a perl script or similar.

	- Murray