Bug 66855

Summary: [patch] rewrite sections of Porter's Handbook dealing with keeping up-to-date
Product: Documentation Reporter: Mark Linimon <linimon>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Mark Linimon <linimon>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: ceri
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
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Description Mark Linimon 2004-05-19 03:10:12 UTC 
	Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>, in docs/65170, pointed
	out that the Porter's Handbook lacks important information about
	how to keep up with changes to the Ports Collection, especially
	where maintainers are concerned.  This PR rewrites some of the
	existing text about updating, but mostly adds new text at the
	end that describes the UPDATING and CHANGES files, FreshPorts,
	portsmon, and various other strategies and considerations for
	staying informed and avoiding duplicated effort and frustration.

Fix: The changes are in 3 sections: first, the material on FreshPorts
	is moved to the end (the materail on 'sanity tests' was otherwise
	introduced before any other 'keeping up' material).  Secondly,
	the technical information about preparing a port update is
	reworded and missing information is added.  Finally, the section
	'changes' at the end is totally rewritten.

	I will assign this PR to myself, but will wait to commit until
	I get more community feedback.
How-To-Repeat: 	(n/a)
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-05-19 03:24:01 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->linimon

Mine, pending community review.
Comment 2 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-05-26 17:04:40 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Changes committed after community review.