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

[Ben Kaduk]

The following reply was made to PR docs/115000; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot at gmail.com>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/115000: [PATCH] nits and updates to FAQs (part 1)
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:33:49 -0400

 An updated diff is inlined below, but I think gmail may mangle the whitespace,
 so a text file is also available at
 http://web.mit.edu/kaduk/www/freebsd/patches/faq/book.sgml.diff.0.txt
 
 -Ben Kaduk
 
 --------- begin inline patch ------------
 --- book.sgml.orig      2007-07-23 21:26:10.000000000 -0400
 +++ book.sgml   2007-09-22 13:29:06.000000000 -0400
 @@ -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>
 @@ -410,8 +410,11 @@
           <para>Snapshot releases are directly available from <ulink
             url="&url.base;/snapshots/">snapshot</ulink>.</para>
 
 -          <para>Snapshots are generated, on the average, daily for
 -            all actively developed branches.</para>
 +          <para>Official snapshots are generated, on the average, monthly for
 +            all actively developed branches.  There are also
 +            daily snapshot builds of the popular &arch.i386;
 +            and &arch.amd64 branches, hosted on
 +            <ulink
 url=http://snapshots.us.freebsd.org/>snapshots.us.freebsd.org</ulink>.</para>
          </answer>
        </qandaentry>
 
 @@ -432,7 +435,7 @@
              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 +470,7 @@
 
          <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 +535,7 @@
              <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 +564,7 @@
            <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>