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On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 02:36:15PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 01:20:37PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > [ Moved to doc@ from some other place ]
> >=20
> > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 05:58:37AM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> >=20
> > > Or perhaps
> > > 4.X will be knifed from the handbook. And most likely, the
> > > only people who will expect it coming will be those that aren't
> > > going to stand in my way.[1] :)
> > >=20
> > > [1]: Please don't take that as if it's rude, I'm actually
> > > joking around with it. Cause I know that if someone
> > > tried that, well, to core && doceng they'd be explaining.
> >=20
> > Actually that's a great idea. There's no reason why we couldn't, like
> > today, commit a copy of the current handbook to handbook4 and then get
> > rid of all the crud from the real handbook. Same deal with the FAQ.
> > The information is still available then, but we no longer have to tear
> > our own hair own trying to maintain the documents.
> >
>=20
> If people agree with that idea, let's freeze a Handbook4 and stop
> "supporting" 4.X in docs. (By "freeze" I mean no any new
> addition/change beside typos.) Let's then create a HANDBOOK_4 (or
> something like that) tag for CVSup operations.
> We could do the same for Handbook5 when 5.X will be dropped.
That's pretty much was I was thinking. Right now I can't think of any
reason why it's a bad idea.
Ceri
--=20
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.)
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