Fwd: Re: RFA: link http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/ in docs

[Tom Rhodes]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:54:07 +0200
"Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 2006.10.17 21:50:49 +0200, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> > Hello doc@,
> > 
> >  I would like to ask you people, what do you think about the following
> >  change:
> > 
> > This is a forwarded message
> > From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
> > To: Daniel Gerzo <danger at freebsd.org>
> > Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 2:53:11 PM
> > Subject: RFA: link http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/ in docs
> > 
> > ===8<==============Original message text===============
> > On 2006-10-17 01:00, Daniel Gerzo <danger at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > >    Some people don't like removal of some 4.X and pre-5.3 things from
> > >    our documentation especially in our handbook. They often say that
> > >    it's hard to find the archive of our docs, therefore I think this
> > >    change might be reasonable. What do you guys think?
> > 
> > It's a good idea.  I don't object to this change, but...
> > 
> > Since this is displayed on *ALL* the HTML output pages, we might have to
> > ask freebsd-doc about this.
> 
> Do you have an example of how this looks in the built HTML?
> 
> My initial reaction is that while I think we should improve info on
> where to find old docs, most users don't need them, so adding this to
> alle pages might be a bit overkill...
> 
> Hmm, and now I see that we actually already have a link at
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ to the old docs...

Simon is right, there is a link to docs.FreeBSD.org where the
handbook is available for almost every release.  I think users
can deal with clicking two links over the hours of trouble it
is for us to maintain a handbook for every version.

-- 
Tom Rhodes