Re: docs.freebsd.org missing newer release docs

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:42 PM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>  > > > John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>  > > > > FYI, http://docs.freebsd.org/doc doesn't have the documentation for
>  > > > > the 6.3 and 7.0 releases.

The basic idea of http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/ is to have an
archive of our documentation.

>  > > The handbook links to it in the first page, so if it is deprecated the
>  > > link should be removed.
>  >
>  > This text:
>  >
>  >         (previous versions of this handbook can be obtained from <ulink
>  >         url=")." rel="nofollow">http://docs.FreeBSD.org/doc/"></ulink>).
>  >
>  > from book.sgml makes me think that's where we could go for "older"
>  > versions of the handbook.  The Handbook itself should cover
>  > the latest releases.  If there is some ambiguity, then it should
>  > be fixed.  ;)

or "past versions" or "historic versions" ;-)

>  If that were the case surely 6.2 would be recent enough to be covered, yet 6.2
>  is on the docs machine. :)  It seems that the docs from each release are
>  saved on that machine and that someone(tm) just hasn't done it for 6.3 and
>  7.0 yet.  I've no idea who "someone" is though.

thats me.

-Wolfram

-- 
Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> http://wolfram.schneider.org
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