Bug 42392

Comment 1 Giorgos Keramidas 2002-09-04 00:33:38 UTC

On 2002-09-03 23:35 +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
> I recently unhooked the Pedantic PPP Primer from the doc build.
> 	(doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/Makefile r1.11).
> I'd quite like to give someone a chance to bring this document back into the
> present day before issuing a "cvs rm".
> Therefore I've raised this PR after discussion with keramida to throw this
> open to the wild.

This is the first time I feel happy that a PR is "opened", instead of
"closed".  I don't have the hardware, nor the expertise to test and
document the scenarios that were originally described in the PPP
Primer, but it has been one of the documents that were of great
assistance as I was staring to work on FreeBSD in Sep 1998.

If anyone feels that they can update it, then by all means, please
raise your hands and say "Aye!  I will do it."

G.K.

Comment 2 Marc Fonvieille 2002-09-04 10:01:03 UTC

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 11:35:13PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> 
> >Number:         42392
> >Category:       docs
> >Synopsis:       Pedantic PPP Primer scheduled for termination
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       non-critical
> >Priority:       low
> >Responsible:    ceri
> >State:          open
> >Quarter:        
> >Keywords:       
> >Date-Required:
> >Class:          change-request
> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
> >Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 03 15:40:02 PDT 2002
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org>
> >Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE i386
> >Organization:
> The FreeBSD Documentation Project
> >Environment:
> System: FreeBSD rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net 4.7-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Sep 3 21:56:36 BST 2002 setantae@rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RHADAMANTH i386
> 
> 
> 	
> >Description:
> I recently unhooked the Pedantic PPP Primer from the doc build.
> 	(doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/Makefile r1.11).
> 
> I'd quite like to give someone a chance to bring this document back into the
> present day before issuing a "cvs rm".
> 
> Therefore I've raised this PR after discussion with keramida to throw this
> open to the wild.
> 
> I propose to cvs rm the ppp-primer on December 1st, 2002 unless this book has
> been updated and finished.
>

Good news :)

There is something that we can find in that doc and that you can't find
in the Handbook: it's the installation & test of a NIC, of course it's
very far from being perfect :)
I'm planning something about that problem: I want to add a big section
in the Handbook (maybe in config & tuning chapter) about installing,
configuring and troubleshooting NICs. "Newcomers" are often lost on that
point.

Marc

Comment 3 Ceri Davies 2002-11-29 16:28:24 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->ceri

Remind myself to murder this. 
(blackend has moved the useful content into the handbook).

Comment 4 Ceri Davies 2002-12-01 18:35:08 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

The deed is done.