Peter N. M. Hansteen <pe...@bsdly.net> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 03:36:02PM +0000, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > > It's also a pity the the faq are not available in a single html or pdf > > format. This would be handy for those who, like me, are studying for > > the BSD Specialist certification. Having a single document makes it > > easier to search for a specific command. > > It is not my intention to be or even sound rude, but this is a matter of > combining a collection of uniformly formatted html files into one. > > My first impulse would be to see if there is something available either in > the base system or as a package that would either 'just work' for the purpose > or > could be extremely helpful in achieving the feat with a not-too-burdensome > amount of programming (scripting?). > > If you find a way to do that in a way that does not break and require manual > labor after each change to the source files, I'm sure your contributing > the code back to the project would be appreciated.
I'll say it again, no thanks. Any proposal here requires us to do something. We don't want to do this. We are a multi-faceted operating system project which does not need to keep adding extra mandates requested by 1 person. We used to have such a file, btw. I remember it stopped being updated for various reasons, probably use of offline tools, and extra steps wasting the time of the group maintaining the FAQ. It took years before people noticed the file had stopped receiving updates. Which meant noone was relying on it. And our reaction was obvious: It was deleted.
