Re: Call for Documentation Contributors

2010-09-03 Thread Daniel Gerzo
On 3.9.2010, at 1:10, Adam Vande More wrote: >> > Wouldn't it be a lot easier to have a nice article on installing > /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-* from the date of the release of the installed > system? Or maybe offer archive web access to a handbook snapshot from that > date(Django does somet

Re: Call for Documentation Contributors

2010-09-02 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > Wouldn't it be a lot easier to have a nice article on installing > /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-* from the date of the release of the installed > system? Or maybe offer archive web access to a handbook snapshot from that > date(Django does

Re: Call for Documentation Contributors

2010-09-02 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > I actually think there is some point in this idea. The problem is that many > times we just leave notes or warnings specific for given releases, which can > many times lead to confusion (or people just don't notice) and as time goes > and we c

Re: Call for Documentation Contributors

2010-09-02 Thread Daniel Gerzo
I actually think there is some point in this idea. The problem is that many times we just leave notes or warnings specific for given releases, which can many times lead to confusion (or people just don't notice) and as time goes and we cut the support for given releases they get stale (e.g. We h

Re: Call for Documentation Contributors

2010-09-02 Thread Gabor PALI
Hello, On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Niclas Zeising wrote: > would it be possible to move that site to the wiki, where > most other stuff related to FreeBSD development is? Almost all parts are on the FreeBSD wiki already. Only the main coordination page (which is only a single HTML page),

Re: Call for Documentation Contributors

2010-09-02 Thread Niclas Zeising
On 2010-09-02 00:46, Gabor PALI wrote: Hello there, I am looking for volunteers who are interested in writing documentation, i.e. working with the FreeBSD Handbook and the documentation set. Many of our great documentation writers have decided to retire from their work over the last years, whic

Re: Call for Documentation Contributors

2010-09-02 Thread Ed Schouten
* Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > Please separate Handbook with respect to distributions , i.e. , maintain a > different Handbook for each distribution . The problem with that is that it will cause documentation for older, but still supported releases, to become stale. Most doc changes apply to fu

Re: Call for Documentation Contributors

2010-09-01 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Gabor PALI wrote: > Hello there, > > I am looking for volunteers who are interested in writing > documentation, i.e. working with the FreeBSD Handbook and the > documentation set. Many of our great documentation writers have > decided to retire from their work ove

Call for Documentation Contributors

2010-09-01 Thread Gabor PALI
Hello there, I am looking for volunteers who are interested in writing documentation, i.e. working with the FreeBSD Handbook and the documentation set. Many of our great documentation writers have decided to retire from their work over the last years, which means the FreeBSD Documentation Project