Doc BoF at EuroBSDCon

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Thu Dec 9 00:34:39 UTC 2004


On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 02:07:44PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> 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.

He's already offered to do it, but doesn't subscribe to the list or
understand what we do (or something - check the archives), and wanted
some help with summaries.

Ceri
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