docs/87445: comments for improvement of handbook/kernelconfig-config.html

[Ceri Davies]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 02:36:15PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 01:20:37PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > [ Moved to doc@ from some other place ]
> > 
> > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 05:58:37AM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > 
> > >                                                     Or perhaps
> > > 4.X will be knifed from the handbook.  And most likely, the
> > > only people who will expect it coming will be those that aren't
> > > going to stand in my way.[1]  :)
> > > 
> > > [1]: Please don't take that as if it's rude, I'm actually
> > >      joking around with it.  Cause I know that if someone
> > >      tried that, well, to core && doceng they'd be explaining.
> > 
> > Actually that's a great idea.  There's no reason why we couldn't, like
> > today, commit a copy of the current handbook to handbook4 and then get
> > rid of all the crud from the real handbook.  Same deal with the FAQ.
> > The information is still available then, but we no longer have to tear
> > our own hair own trying to maintain the documents.
> >
> 
> If people agree with that idea, let's freeze a Handbook4 and stop
> "supporting" 4.X in docs.  (By "freeze" I mean no any new
> addition/change beside typos.)  Let's then create a HANDBOOK_4 (or
> something like that) tag for CVSup operations.
> We could do the same for Handbook5 when 5.X will be dropped.

That's pretty much was I was thinking.  Right now I can't think of any
reason why it's a bad idea.

Ceri
-- 
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former.			  -- Einstein (attrib.)
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