Sections about ports software in handbook

[Glen Barber]

On 5/17/11 8:18 AM, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> Hi!

Hi Niclas,

> Is there any interest in having sections in the handbook about
> configuring various ports software suites? I was thinking about
> additions for postfix, imap/pop3 servers, maybe nagios, and similar
> often very much used applications.
> The idea is to add sections about simple configurations, and then refer
> to other documentation for complex setups.
> 
> Is this welcome, or would patches to this effect be mostly a waste of
> time? What do you think?
> 

I don't speak for anyone else but myself (and certainly do not oppose
this idea), however I think doing this might add redundant information
to the Handbook, meaning, configurations that have already been
documented by the respective software vendor.

Maybe this type of documentation would be better in separate articles
(or better off, maybe the Wiki) for FreeBSD-specific configurations
where the vendor's defaults "don't quite work", rather than general
How-To configurations.

Best regards,

-- 
Glen Barber | gjb at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Documentation Project