updating documentation set

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Feb 4 03:01:03 UTC 2014


On Mon, 3 Feb 2014, Dru Lavigne wrote:

> This section:
>
> 23.4. Updating the Documentation Set
>
> really belongs (and is already mostly duplicated in):
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/overview.html#overview-doc
>
> Any objections to me doing the following?
>
> 1. remove "23.4. Updating the Documentation Set" from the Handbook, replacing it with a NOTE in the updating section that docs can either be updated during an OS upgrade or, at any other time, by following the instructions in the FDP overview (with link)
>
>
> 2. make sure that any points covered by 23.4 and currently missing from the FDP overview are added to the FDP overview

Don't we have doc ports specifically for users to keep a current version 
of the documentation on their system?  Upgrading a port is simpler 
for an end user than an svn checkout, there's less overhead, and we 
would not have to expose them to developer instructions.


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