freebsd-doc Digest, Vol 182, Issue 5

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>    1. docs/103286: Improved wording and error removal (Jörg Pernfuß)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:02:11 GMT
> From: Jörg Pernfuß <elessar at bsdforen.de>
> Subject: docs/103286: Improved wording and error removal
> To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
> Message-ID: <200609142302.k8EN2BTC020530 at www.freebsd.org>
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> >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:
> >Unformatted:
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