On 3.9.2010, at 1:10, Adam Vande More <amvandemore_at_gmail.com> wrote: >> > Wouldn't it be a lot easier to have a nice article on installing > /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-* from the date of the release of the installed > system? Or maybe offer archive web access to a handbook snapshot from that > date(Django does something similar)? FYI we have archive of hadbooks and FAQs for past releases at http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/. People just often don't know or are lazy to browse there, even though I believe it is linked from the footer of the handbook. The problem here is that we happen to cover all the supported releases in a single handbook which simply leads to confusion...on the other hand you may be right that discrepancies don't happen that often and the additional work is not worth it. > Maintaining separate handbook branches > seems unrealistic if there aren't enough doc contributors to maintain one to > expectations, and IME discrepancies aren't very frequent.Received on Fri Sep 03 2010 - 11:04:32 UTC
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