At www.freebsd.org, the organization of information related to getting and installing FreeBSD (other than the confusingly-labeled "Current" version) is rather poor, making it unnecessarily hard to find. It also omits some related introductory information to give newbies a clue. (The fix involves swapping some info between two pages, adding a little introductory info to one, and changing a couple links on the home page.) 1) The listing of "release" documents is spread across these two pages: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html "Release Information" http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes.html "Release Documentation" and mixed (on both pages) with some information about the releases themselves (as opposed to being about the release documentation). 2) The home page's "Documentation" menu doesn't have an entry for the release documentation while the "Software" menu has a link to a page which says little about software (it's almost all about documentation). The two OS-related links under "Software" are also sorely lacking in introductory material and so are rude to newbies. Finally, that "Software" menu would be easier to navigate with the software divided into "base OS" and "application/ports/packages" sub-categories (eg, by just having two such links instead of the current three). ================ Fix: The general idea is to make relnotes.html cover the release docs and make releases/index.html cover the base OS software release: On the home page, replace the "Getting FreeBSD" and "Release Information" links under "Software" with one link to releases/index.html labeled "Base OS" or "Base Operating System" or "Operating System" or or "FreeBSD OS" or "Base FreeBSD OS" or "Base OS Distributions" or ... Under "Documentation", add a link to relnotes.html as "Release Docs". Move from releases/index.html the "Current Releases" and "Past Releases" sections into the "RELEASE versions of FreeBSD" section of relnotes.html, removing that section's first paragraph. Rework the remaining "Future Releases" section of releases/index.html to remove the redundant schedule information but say that the schedule is at releng/index.html . Add to the same page an "Introduction" section with a brief introduction of the concept of "distributions" and "releases", etc. and refer to the handbook's section on the subject. Add another section on "Getting FreeBSD" with a brief intro to getting FreeBSD distributions and refer to the handbook's with the "Getting FreeBSD" link now on the home page. How-To-Repeat: n/a ================
State Changed From-To: open->analyzed I'll try to fix the problems.
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-www->garys I'll take it.
Responsible Changed From-To: garys->freebsd-www Assignee has asked to resign his commit bit, so return this one to pool.
State Changed From-To: analyzed->open Open for the wide publicity again.
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-www->re I think this is more something for the RE team...
For bugs matching the following criteria: Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01 Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags. Mail being skipped
We can close this, this PR was opened 21 years ago and the situation is another.