On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:58:43AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> This problem (which I agree is valid) is not so much a problem as to
> where the release notes live, but the fact that one needs to actually
> build human-readable renderings of them. If people can't be bothered
> to install the docproj port and the doc/ tree to get release notes
> living in src/, putting the release notes in doc/ sure isn't going to
> help. It's trivial to put the release notes for -RELEASE versions up
> (the Web site does this already), and Dima thinks it's possible to do
> this for -CURRENT too (and -STABLE if and when it's applicable).
I think this, as a whole, is a non-problem. It's trivial to script a
daily build of the release notes and mirror it to the FTP site (and/or
include it in the twice daily build of the web site).
> Putting the release notes in doc/ means that the src/ committers (who I
> just *barely* got now to make changes to the release notes) are going
> to have to chase through parts of the doc/ hierarchy. I'm pretty sure
> I'm going to lose the few converts I've won if I let people talk me
> into this.
True, true.
> > Also, if we want to put these on the website then it means that anyone
> > doing so will need to have checked out www/, doc/, and src/release/
> > trees.
>
> I got the impression that this would not be hard. They don't need to
> have all of src/ checked out, and if enough people complain about it, we
> can probably make another module which is just the RELNOTESng part of
> src/release.
I think that would be a definite requirement. We could even make
release/ a top level directory, alongside src/, doc/, and ports/.
> > Could this come under doc/, and either have a CVS branch for RELENG_4
> > for just the release notes directory hierarchy, or I could start work on
> > the osrel{min,max,in} attribute support code again. . .
>
> Can it come under doc/? Sure. Do I think it's the right thing? No.
>
> I don't like the idea of having one part of doc/ branched and another
> part not (especially when the part that's not branched lives higher in
> the directory hierarchy).
I don't either (just because I suggest something doesn't mean I always
think it's the best way).
At the end of the day, you're the guy doing the work. . .
N
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