docs/103286: Improved wording and error removal

Jörg Pernfuß elessar at bsdforen.de
Thu Sep 14 23:10:23 UTC 2006


>Number:         103286
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Improved wording and error removal
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep 14 23:10:21 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jörg Pernfuß
>Release:        recent RELENG_6
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
In http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/history.html the paragraphs about RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 sound really awkward to me. I am not a native speaker though, so take my rephrasing with a grain of salt.

Apart from that, the RELENG_5 paragraph states that there will be additional releases from that branch after 5.5-REL. I am in serious doubt.
>How-To-Repeat:
Read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/history.html
1.3.1 A Brief History of FreeBSD
>Fix:
Apply this patch to doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml,v 1.114

--- chapter.sgml.orig   Fri Sep 15 00:44:40 2006
+++ chapter.sgml        Fri Sep 15 00:50:57 2006
@@ -609,17 +609,17 @@
       release started FreeBSD on the path of advanced multiprocessor
       and application thread support and introduced support for the
       &ultrasparc; and <literal>ia64</literal> platforms.  This release
-      was followed by 5.1 in June of 2003.  The last 5.X release from
+      was followed by 5.1 in June of 2003.  The last 5.X release from the
       -CURRENT branch was 5.2.1-RELEASE, introduced in February 2004.</para>
 
-      <para>RELENG_5 branch created in August 2004, followed by 5.3-RELEASE,
-       that marks beginning of the 5-STABLE branch releases.  The most
-       recent &rel2.current;-RELEASE came out in &rel2.current.date;.
-       There will be additional releases from the RELENG_5 branch.</para>
+      <para>The RELENG_5 branch, created in August 2004, was followed by
+       5.3-RELEASE, which marks the beginning of the 5-STABLE branch releases.
+       The most recent &rel2.current;-RELEASE came out in &rel2.current.date;.
+       There will be no additional releases from the RELENG_5 branch.</para>
 
-      <para>Tree was branched in July 2005, for RELENG_6. 6.0-RELEASE, the 
-       first release of the 6.X branch was released in November 2005. The
-       most recent &rel.current;-RELEASE came out in &rel.current.date;.
+      <para>The tree was branched again in July 2005, this time for RELENG_6.
+       6.0-RELEASE, the first release of the 6.X branch, was released in November
+       2005. The most recent &rel.current;-RELEASE came out in &rel.current.date;.
        There will be additional releases from the RELENG_6 branch.</para>
 
       <para>For now, long-term development projects continue to take place in the
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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