Doc BoF at EuroBSDCon

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:05:26PM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > > 
> > > OBJDIR was broken way before mirrors.xml.  Also, I'm not really
> > > talking about starting on a clean slate.  Of course parts of the the
> > > current buildsystem is just fine, but others are just a mess.
> > >
> > 
> > I can confirm that, since I'm guilty of this OBJDIR issue.  It's not
> > possible to "easily" fix it without changing a lot of things, so it's
> > better to start a rewrite from zero.
> 
> Which is a lot of work, I think everyone agrees on that.  But
> we can do it.  There is a handful of smart and well meaning
> committers here who I feel, if given more time and pointed in
> a direction of "what we should do" will come through perfectly.
> 
> Right now all we have been doing is bouncing around doing
> whatever.  There is just no real sense of direction.
>

Some of us and I gave in past some requirements and some ways to fix it,
it should be available in the archives.
I spent some times trying to fix it in a clean way, I gave up cause of
lack of time.  The change I did to the build allowed localized PDF
version of docs to use en_US and localized images, before this change it
was impossible to do that and to have images, so I had 2 choices:

- backing out the change and users of OBJDIR would be happy and waiting
  for someone to take care of the localized PDF issue in a better way
  (this could take months or years)
- keeping the change and offering to a lot of non-english readers the
  chance to be able to read/use/download a localised PDF version of the
  translated Handbooks

You know my choice.  If people really want to back out my change, let's
do it, but I still think the most important "thing" is the fact we can
offer the doc to people that do not read english.

Marc