RFC: future directions of the documentation after the XML migration

[Simon L. B. Nielsen]

On 16 Sep 2012, at 09:51, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Em 16-09-2012 09:39, Simon L. B. Nielsen escreveu:
>> On 15 Sep 2012, at 10:10, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> 
>>>> up. So I'd like to remove the following and all of their translations:
>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/
>> This is historic, and people have in the past requested it be kept. (Personally I don't care much either way.)
> 
> In some way or other, everything is historic and if it is a reason
> itself, we should never remove anything...

I think that's a bit too black and white. How to install java on FreeBSD 4 is not worth keeping around. Keeping the records of major projects like SMPng where it might be relevant later to see a bit about the challenges etc. which may explain why some things are done as they are even today, is IMO rather different.

> Anyway, for historic purposes, isn't it enough that it is archived
> per-release as Marc pointed out?

Ah, I had forgotten about that one. Yes, for historic articles that's fine.

That said, that seems like a directory which we need to put into some archive VCS... ah, so many TODO's :-).

PS. what I forgot in my first mail on the topic: I really do appreciate that people are trying to clean up old cruft!

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Simon L. B. Nielsen