docs/115000: [PATCH] nits and updates to FAQs (part 1)

[Ben Kaduk]

>Number:         115000
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] nits and updates to FAQs (part 1)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 29 02:40:01 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ben Kaduk
>Release:        7.0-CURRENT
>Organization:
>Environment:
the world-wide web.
>Description:
itemized (but not enumerated) changelist:

o monthly, not daily, snapshots are made available at freebsd.org/snapshots/

o all monthly snapshots (not just the occasional one) are made available

o the paren of the smiley doesn't close the parenthetical expression.  do so

o we're heading towards 6.3 now, not 6.2

o eight months between 5.5 and 6.2 (june 2006 to january 2007 -- see newvers.sh commit log)

o the linked snapshots are monthly, not daily

o query-pr-summary and query-pr are functionally equivalent now; linking to query-pr is semantically closer to the active text of the link (and I think -summary is deprecated?)

I am not sure why this text refers to daily snapshots.  Perhaps the author was thinking of the tinderboxen?  If so, I didn't think their releases were made available, and they certainly aren't on the page that the FAQ links to.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


Patch attached with submission follows:

--- book.sgml.orig	2007-07-23 20:26:10.000000000 -0500
+++ book.sgml	2007-07-28 21:29:54.000000000 -0500
@@ -367,11 +367,11 @@
             groups</quote> on the -CURRENT mailing list may be
             treated with contempt.</para>
 
-          <para>Every day, <ulink
+          <para>Every month, <ulink
 	    url="&url.base;/snapshots/">snapshot
             </ulink> releases are made based on the current state of the
-            -CURRENT and -STABLE branches.  Distributions of the
-            occasional snapshot are made available. The goals
+            -CURRENT and -STABLE branches.
+            The goals
             behind each snapshot release are:</para>
 
           <itemizedlist>
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@
               <para>To preserve a fixed reference point for the code in
                 question, just in case we break something really badly
                 later.  (Although CVS normally prevents anything horrible
-                like this happening :)</para>
+                like this happening :) )</para>
             </listitem>
 
             <listitem>
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@
             only well-tested bug fixes and other small incremental
             enhancements.  FreeBSD-CURRENT, on the other hand, has
             been one unbroken line since 2.0 was released, leading
-            towards 6.2-RELEASE and beyond.  Just before 6.0-RELEASE, the
+            towards 6.3-RELEASE and beyond.  Just before 6.0-RELEASE, the
             6-STABLE branch was created, and
             &os.current; became 7-CURRENT.  For more detailed information,
             see <quote><ulink url="&url.articles.releng;/release-proc.html#REL-BRANCH">
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@
 
         <answer>
 	  <para>The &a.re; releases a new version of FreeBSD about every
-	    four months, on average.  Release dates are announced well in
+	    eight months, on average.  Release dates are announced well in
 	    advance, so that the people working on the system know
 	    when their projects need to be finished and tested.  
 	    A testing period precedes each release, in order to ensure
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@
             <listitem>
               <para><ulink
 		url="&url.base;/snapshots/">
-                Snapshot</ulink> releases are made daily for the
+                Snapshot</ulink> releases are made monthly for the
 		<link linkend="current">-CURRENT</link> and <link
 		linkend="stable">-STABLE</link> branch, these being
                 of service purely to bleeding-edge testers and
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@
           <para>The Problem Report database of all user change requests
             may be queried by using our web-based PR
             <ulink
-            url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?query">
+            url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?query">
             query</ulink>
             interface.</para>
 


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