My wish list for 6.1

[Ceri Davies]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:46:53PM +0100, Joel Dahl wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 14:22 +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:

> > This is exactly the idea that I have been pimping to anyone who will
> > listen for the last three months or so.  I also think that it is
> > advantageous for users who are using, say 4.2, to be able to find
> > documentation for 4.2 without having to interpret a nest of "if you have
> > 4.x do this, if 5.0 through 5.3 do that, else do the other".  I don't
> > think it's a lot of work to just branch the handbook (and FAQ
> > if we decide to keep it) - in fact, for me, it would be a definite win -
> > at release time, but it just doesn't seem to be what other people want
> > done.
> 
> Yep, I really like this.  The current mess is impossible to maintain
> (and also impossible to read).  Yesterday I tried to update the kernel
> configuration chapter to cover 6.0, but I gave up since there are "do
> this for 4.X, do that for 5.X, and maybe this too for 6.X" everywhere.

Yes, that's my major concern.  I find working on the current documents
too difficult.

Ceri
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