Maintenance of FreeBSD 8.0 Release Documentation

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 02 October 2009 3:09:22 am John Marshall wrote:
> Who looks after the FreeBSD Release Documentation (Release Notes, etc.)
> and what is the proper way for submitting update suggestions?
> 
> Since I started testing FreeBSD 8.0 back in July, I have been bitten
> three times (HARD) by different changes in Kerberos (Heimdal went from
> 0.6.3 to 1.1.0).  I have been reporting my questions, findings and
> patches to -current@ but that doesn't address the documentation.
> 
> I would think that the Release Notes would be the appropriate place to
> give at least a summary of some of the changes included in the release.
> If I look at
> <http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/relnotes/new.html#CONTRIB>
> there is not even any mention of the Kerberos (Heimdal) upgrade: the
> OpenSSH upgrade is mentioned but the upgrade version number is wrong.
> 
> So, what should I do? or is posting this email all that I need to do?
> I have not been able to find the 8.0 Release Notes source in CVS.

I believe that the current maintainer tends to do a flurry of release note 
updates during the end of the release cycle.  I think hrs@ is the current 
maintainer of the release notes.  The live in the source tree under 
src/release/doc IIRC.

-- 
John Baldwin