Time for a fresh start, it's time folks

[Eitan Adler]

On 22 June 2012 11:42, Benedict Reuschling <bcr at freebsd.org> wrote:

> I agree with Gabor's statement that we should wait until we are in XML
> world. Otherwise, we would probably need to throw away anything that
> gets developed in the meantime or at least require much effort to
> integrate it into our (then XML-based) build infrastructure. I'm very
> happy that we finally managed the doc SVN migration. Now that Gabor is
> also working on XML in a separate branch, I think we are making
> excellent progress towards a more modern doc infrastructure. Once the
> foundation is solid enough, I guess there will be plenty of people who
> are be willing to work together on a new FreeBSD.org webpage.

Not at all. Making a mockup does not touch our infrastructure at all.
Gabor's work, while quite useful and appreciated, is completely
unrelated.

> These things take time, but the webpages are not broken at the moment,
> just outdated. Hence a replacement should not be our top priority (at
> least, it's not mine). However, I would be interested to see some design
> studies if someone is interested in doing them to see what can be done.

Agreed. It isn't urgent "unbreak it now", but if we can, we do need to
update it.

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Eitan Adler