Subject: Re: Documentation
To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 16:49:14 +0000 (GMT)
From: Ben Laurie <ben@gonzo.ben.algroup.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <9610312113.aa14754@paris.ics.uci.edu> from "Roy T. Fielding" at
 Oct 31, 96 09:13:59 pm
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Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> 
> > Hmmmm ... given this new thought I'll hold off for a while until we are more
> > sure about how we want to proceed. But not long...
> 
> Ack! Nooooooo ...... please put the docs in cvs now and we can think about
> when and how to do updates later. I've thought about updating various parts
> of the documentation, but keep putting it off due to the hassle of editing
> remotely.  Now I can't even remember what I was going to update. :(
> 
> My inclination is to put the "current server" docs on HEAD and create
> a separate branch for documenting an in-progress server, and then have
> a normal cron script do nighty updates.

Well, this will happen naturally, as we branch the tree for server releases,
which is why it is a good idea to keep it in the same tree.

Since many are keen that we should CVS in some form, I will now add the docs
to the CVS tree as I described initially. If we decide to go another route at
some time in the future, I'm happy enough to make it so (given the time).

Cheers,

Ben.

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