removing CVS in Handbook Updating and Upgrading chapter

Joe Altman freebsd at chthonixia.net
Mon Jan 28 01:25:32 UTC 2013


On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 01:15:52PM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> 
> Say we leave CVS references in this chapter, and CVS for source goes 
> away in (for example) six months.  Anyone who starts using CVS in that 
> time will be forced to switch.  And they would be justifiably upset, 
> because they were offered an option that was going away.

As a user, not a developer nor a contributor, I agree. Don't send anyone
down the wrong path. There is just no reason for that. 

> My personal feeling is that continuing to suggest CVS for -STABLE or 
> -CURRENT, even with a deprecation warning, is a disservice to those 
> users.

Yep. And though I cannot find it now, I would have sworn blind that
there was an EOL in the handbook. Sometime in February this year?

As a user, I urge that the doc team not leave this hanging. If the
project does not intend to support it, then bite the bullet now not
later.

Joe


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