cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook book.sgml

[Ceri Davies]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 01:21:31PM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:57:27AM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:02:58PM +0000, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> > > blackend    2005-12-18 17:02:58 UTC
> > > 
> > >   FreeBSD doc repository
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook book.sgml 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Add a link to previous versions of the Handbook
> > >   (http://docs.FreeBSD.org/doc/).  This should be an answer to various
> > >   headaches when it's time to maintain the correctness of a documentation
> > >   for the various branches.  The Handbook currently covers the use of
> > >   FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE and FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE (and 7-CURRENT since now the
> > >   changes between branches will be less "important"), so the users of
> > >   previous releases should read the versions archived on
> > >   http://docs.FreeBSD.org/doc/
> > 
> > So we can start removing all the "if you have 4.x do this, else do that"
> > in favour of "do that" now?  Brilliant!
> >
> 
> Most of time: yes.  I think when it's not possible to just add a little
> note for 4.X, we should not loose our time trying to make the doc 4.X
> compliant.  On another hand, if we have a note or a "(on FreeBSD 4.X use
> blahblah instead)" we can keep them since it does not hurt.  For the
> rest, during a section rewritting (to make it totally 5.X/6.X compliant)
> we can drop legacy 4.X.  In fact, I let it to each committer opinion,
> and as everyone I think making the doc 5.X/6.X compliant is more
> important than just removing 4.X parts.

OK, that makes sense.

> Regarding the outdating parts or lacks, we (doceng@) currently trying to
> write a TODO list to sum up the needs.  I should post it soon, well if
> the holidays are not eating all my free time :)

Yeah, I know that feeling :)

Ceri
-- 
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former.			  -- Einstein (attrib.)
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