Bug 263403 - FreeBSD Advocacy Project, including myths: update
Summary: FreeBSD Advocacy Project, including myths: update
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Website (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Some People
Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
URL: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-do...
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Reported: 2022-04-18 19:28 UTC by Graham Perrin
Modified: 2022-06-26 01:08 UTC (History)
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Description Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-04-18 19:28:42 UTC 
<https://www.freebsd.org/advocacy/myths/#old-codebase>
<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/blob/main/website/content/en/advocacy/myths.adoc#old-codebase>

> … the BSD codebase may be more than 20 years old, …

– should be more like: 

> … the BSD codebase is more than forty-four years old, …

– the phrase "Forty-four" has a nice 'ring' to it.

Ideally, link to <https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/timeline/> with 1BSD Release at 1978-03-08 on the BSD timeline, which runs above and parallel to the FreeBSD timeline. 

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Consider adding a paragraph to address the somewhat stereotypical view that use of FreeBSD (or FreeBSD on notebooks), by FreeBSD developers, is unusual (or a rarity). 

Please see, for example: <https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/u5nkli/-/i54c1st/>

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Anything else? 

We had bug 260763 fixed not long ago for the same page, so (I guess) nothing hugely important at this time. 

Looking ahead: revisit advocacy well ahead of the (2023) thirtieth anniversary of FreeBSD. 

(An update to the Foundation's timeline page will be smart, but that's beyond the scope of this Bugzilla.)

Thanks
Comment 1 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-04-23 16:38:08 UTC 
(Sorry, I began with the wrong component. A slip of the finger, I guess.)
Comment 2 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-06-25 18:30:39 UTC 
A commit in branch main references this bug:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=214b337de3e2abdb9786693b948a6d6d1dd530c9

commit 214b337de3e2abdb9786693b948a6d6d1dd530c9
Author:     Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-06-25 18:28:01 +0000
Commit:     Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2022-06-25 18:28:01 +0000

    Upgrade myths page

    * Use one sentence per line
    * Upgrade FreeBSD age ;)
    * Put a link to FreeBSD Foundation timeline

    PR:             263403
    Submitted by:   Graham Perrin <grahamperrin (AT) gmail.com>

 website/content/en/advocacy/myths.adoc | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
Comment 3 Sergio Carlavilla Delgado freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-06-25 18:32:01 UTC 
I upgraded all except this:

> Consider adding a paragraph to address the somewhat stereotypical view that use of FreeBSD (or FreeBSD on notebooks), by FreeBSD developers, is unusual (or a rarity). 

> Please see, for example: <https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/u5nkli/-/i54c1st/>

I'm not gonna enter in this game hehe

Btw, thanks for this and for your work in the documentation :)
Comment 4 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-06-26 01:08:44 UTC 
(In reply to Sergio Carlavilla Delgado from comment #3)

All good. Thanks :-)