Fwd: Re: RFA: link http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/ in docs

Daniel Gerzo danger at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 17 22:13:45 UTC 2006


Hello Simon,

Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 10:54:07 PM, you wrote:

> Do you have an example of how this looks in the built HTML?

For example: http://cvsup.sk.freebsd.org/~danger/kernelbuild.html

> My initial reaction is that while I think we should improve info on
> where to find old docs, most users don't need them, so adding this to
> alle pages might be a bit overkill...

Well, while this is your own opinion, other users may disagree here ;)
Let's wait for reactions of other people...

> Hmm, and now I see that we actually already have a link at
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ to the old docs...

I know about that one :) But I agree with Tom Ken that our users don't
usually read the Handbook introduction when seeking for some
information. (We discussed it on #bsddocs last night.)

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel                            mailto:danger at FreeBSD.org




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