Bug 56729

Summary: [patch] artciles/pr-guidelines: explain meaning of MFC
Product: Documentation Reporter: Josef El-Rayes <j.el-rayes>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
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Description Josef El-Rayes 2003-09-12 08:30:21 UTC 
		doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pr-guidelines/article.sgml:
		this patch adds a note explaining the meaning of MFC, as 
		this term is used quite often in the article without explanation - 
		this term is also used quite often in other articles hardly explained.
Comment 1 Christian Brueffer 2003-09-12 09:13:32 UTC 
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:19:40AM +0200, Josef El-Rayes wrote:
> 
> --- article.sgml.diff begins here ---
> --- article.sgml.orig	Fri Sep 12 01:30:28 2003
> +++ article.sgml	Fri Sep 12 01:33:04 2003
> @@ -122,7 +122,12 @@
>  	  MFCed, then closes it.</para>
>        </listitem>
>      </itemizedlist>
> 
> +    <note>
> +      <para>MFC means <quote>Merge From CURRENT</quote>, the action of
> +      merging a tested change from the -CURRENT development branch to 
> +      the -STABLE branch.</para>
> +    </note>
>      <note>
>        <para>Many PRs are submitted with very little information about
>  	the problem, and some are either very complex to solve, or
> --- article.sgml.diff ends here ---
> 


This is already covered in the FAQ.  I think if anything, a link should
suffice.

- Christian

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Comment 2 Ceri Davies freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-09-12 10:19:19 UTC 
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:20:10AM -0700, Christian Brueffer wrote:
>  On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:19:40AM +0200, Josef El-Rayes wrote:
>  >=20
>  > --- article.sgml.diff begins here ---
>  > --- article.sgml.orig	Fri Sep 12 01:30:28 2003
>  > +++ article.sgml	Fri Sep 12 01:33:04 2003
>  > @@ -122,7 +122,12 @@
>  >  	  MFCed, then closes it.</para>
>  >        </listitem>
>  >      </itemizedlist>
>  >=20
>  > +    <note>
>  > +      <para>MFC means <quote>Merge From CURRENT</quote>, the action of
>  > +      merging a tested change from the -CURRENT development branch to=20
>  > +      the -STABLE branch.</para>
>  > +    </note>
>  >      <note>
>  >        <para>Many PRs are submitted with very little information about
>  >  	the problem, and some are either very complex to solve, or
>  > --- article.sgml.diff ends here ---
>  >=20
>  
>  This is already covered in the FAQ.  I think if anything, a link should
>  suffice.


I agree that it doesn't need to be duplicated in that article (else we'd be
pretty much doing it in every article).

Perhaps we should have a FreeBSD glossary, where all relevant acronyms and
terms are explained.  This could then be easily included at the end of
printed works, etc.  I'd be prepared to make a start on it, but I'd need
help for sure.

Ceri
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Comment 3 Ceri Davies freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-09-18 19:10:21 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

A new FreeBSD specific glossary has been added; this simply needs 
fleshing out before being added to the default build.