[RFC] A Handbook Section on Updating the Documentation Set

Rene Ladan r.c.ladan at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 20:14:14 UTC 2009


2009/1/6 Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 20:36:31 +0000, Frank Shute <frank at shute.org.uk> wrote:
>>On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 07:31:56PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>>On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:29:48 +0100, Gabor PALI <pgj at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~pgj/patches/2008/12/27/updating-upgrading-documentation.patch.diff
>>>
>>> Ping...  Any news about this patch?
>>
>> Hi Giorgos,
>>
>> If you remember, you asked me if I could get the page I wrote about
>> using csup to update the docs:
>>
>> http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/freebsd_uptodate.html
>>
>> into some sort of state to be incorporated into the updating section
>> of the handbook.
>
> Hi Frank,
>
> "Yes", and if you can review the existing patch by Gabor Pali :)
>
>> I've built the docs with Gabor's above patch applied & have started
>> work on rejigging that section.
>>
>> You can see how far I've got. I've only done one page (which is bound
>> to change) & largely worked on the css, so it's easier to mark-up into
>> sgml:
>>
>> http://www.shute.org.uk/freebsd/synopsis.html
>
> Don't spend too much time tweaking the CSS style.  We don't often make
> changes in that area.
>
>> I've made an executive decision to change mentions of cvsup to csup
>> where appropriate since it's in base.
>
> Rene Ladan (added to the Cc: list) wanted to write about csup too, if my
> memory does not fool me.  Gabor and Rene had a discussion about this, so
> before you spend a lot of time writing a long description of csup, maybe
> it would be a good idea to talk to Gabor and Rene.
>
No?   I think you're confused with the SVN patches for the committers guide.

Regards,
Rene
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