- Fix some recent missorting. The text on the website claims that this
list is in reverse chronological order. Choose the newest "end date"
for individuals with multiple ranges as the date to sort against since
this seems to be the one used most commonly.
- Within a group of developers who stepped down at the same time (e.g.
election handover), sort by last name then first (this was the most
common pattern I could see in the existing entries).
- Remove a duplicate entry for myself.
- remove an aside about reading the mailing list. This is taken care of
by the later sentence about reading revision history
- use a slightly stronger admonition ("important" instead of "note") for
the comments about not sending mail directly to the maintainer.
- Refer explicitly to the 'MAINTAINERS' file at the root of the tree
- Use the language of "asking for a review" instead of "sending the
change to them" which, again, encourages a more public interaction.
- Remove the weasel language "it may help" and just encourage people to
scan the history
- many explicitly want FreeBSD to be easier to use
- this feels a bit elitist ("we're more experienced; use us!")
This entire Q&A could use with a rewrite but start small.
- wrap long lines
- put two spaces after a sentence stop
- put <info> and <title> on lines on their own
- in one instance, put the text right next to the <para> tag and not below it
I did not change the capitalizations in this file, so the file should not have
any visible changes.
Even though we don't have currently have active seeds some people still
use the old ones. In addition we may restore creating new ones.
Update the text a bit to reflect that you can use the mirror. Move the
text together into one section, and keep the note about alternatives.
Requested by: kib
There are no such supported branches. Those that need to merge to such
branches can get the information from the documentation archive.
While here, remove an incorrect note that depth cannnot be reduced
(it can be).
Apparently, igor does not like the occurance of the second <para> in the
<para><note><para> sequence in the abstract. Replacing it with something else
makes the file not pass the DTD checks. Err on the side of letting the file
compile, leaving a couple of igor checks unresolved.
Overall, the docbook xml source in this file should be much cleaner now.
In particular, a lot of spaces were replaced by tabs, indentations were
corrected, two spaces after a setence stop were added, and titles where
capitalized when needed.
I've kept the "redundant markup and words" and contraction errors as they
were, in order not to change the historical text and the original author's
words.
change www/boa's description
add www/cherokee and www/lighttpd web servers to the list
Nginx -> nginx (as used by the project)
minor fixes
PR: 227714
Submitted by: Vinicius Zavam <egypcio AT googlemail DOT com>
Approved by: wosch
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15167
- remove references to CVS, p4, etc.
- remove indirect reference to FreeBSD.org
- stop talking about old defaults
- update links
This page can be cleaned up some more, but has some valuable information
so should not be deleted without moving the information elsewhere first.
We have several lists of important branches. Rather than having to
update them all just mention the important part. Another option might
be to change this to a link with more detailed information.
Perforce no longer provides server binaries for FreeBSD and we haven't
used Perforce for project development in several years.
Reviewed by: bjk (previous version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15392
I missed this in r51635 when we removed 'All Rights Reserved' from the
preferred license. The phrase is no longer needed and has no legal
meaning now that the Buenos Aires Convention is no longer in force.
