docs/87073: New article: Maintaining and contributing to the FreeBSD Ports Collection

Ion-Mihai Tetcu itetcu at people.tecnik93.com
Sun Oct 9 23:53:49 UTC 2005


On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 12:01:05 -0500
linimon at lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 01:22:05PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > Maybe it would make sense to cross-reference this in both PH (as PH
> > is a technical document, e.g. answer very detailed to how but
> > doesn't give you as fast the big picture) and Ports chapter in
> > Handbook (both to encourage people being maintainers and to provide
> > some better understanding towards maintainers).
> 
> Absolutely.  I think first I'll just try to get it committed so at
> least we can be referring people to it.  After that I think we'll
> find things to tweak up in it, too.

 :)
 
> As has been discussed (possibly off-list) there's stuff in the PH that
> isn't technical and that stuff needs to go "somewhere" 

And stuff that isn't there but should be :) (from time to time)
I'm thinking if we shouldn't impose documenting in PH the new things
that go in bsd.*.mk's files (the things that are supposed to go in
CHANGES). (don't commit if you don't document it in PH or at least
provide a non-doc-book version so more proficient doc people can do it
fast).


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