http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/relnotes-i386.html questions

[Hiroki Sato]

Hi,

Chris Pepper <pepper at reppep.com> wrote
  in <p06101100bce296e828eb@[10.0.1.250]>:

pepper> 	Is this worth updating, for people like me who read the 
pepper> release notes on the main website (and haven't upgraded already), or 
pepper> not really, under the theory that people won't see updated release 
pepper> notes? I don't see anything that needs to go into errata, which takes 
pepper> updates post-release...

 Ah, sorry, almost all of them you pointed out seem my fault...

 Regardless of whether people will read or not, the release notes
 should not be updated after the release.  This is the
 same reason why the release distribution itself is not updated due to
 the errors/bugfixes without bumping the version number.  If needed,
 information on the error should be put into the errata document.
 Anyway, I appreciate your patch to fix them, especially for English
 nits---I am not a native speaker and want to learn from it.

pepper> /usr/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml doesn't 
pepper> contain the content in the HTML. Is it immediately cleared out after 
pepper> each release for the next release (4.11R in this case)? If so, that 
pepper> seems to imply that release notes for a release are never updated 
pepper> once the release is announced. Am I understanding correctly, or are 
pepper> 4.10R notes only available from a specific tag, or am I completely 
pepper> off in the weeds?

 The release notes for 4.10R is on RELENG_4_10, not RELENG_4.

pepper> 	On a forward-looking note, I notice that references like 
pepper> ports/UPDATING are not links -- is there any reason they shouldn't be?

 No.  There has been no procedure to add references like
 ports/UPDATING yet because they are relatively new.  I think I will consider
 them in the next release cycle.

-- 
| Hiroki SATO
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