The fifth NetBSD Hackathon took place from Friday, 6th of
April, until
Sunday, 8th of April 2007. Titled "docathon", the
main focus was on
bringing the NetBSD WWW pages and documentation into a
consistent and
more up-to-date state. Here are the results:
* All .list files that are not related to translations have
been
converted
* Many of the ports pages were previously either available
in XML
or HTML. To unify them, all the HTML-pages have been
converted to
XML (or are under conversion).
* The wscons FAQ has been converted and merged into the
NetBSD
Guide's "console drivers" section.
* Other parts of the documentation previously only available
in plain
HTML have been converted to XML.
* Obsolete ports pages have been removed in the process of
the sh5
and evhsh5 port removal which happended during this
weekend, new
ports paves have been properly linked.
* Various minor updates and fixes have been applied
Unfortunately, the translations are generally in a state
without much
hope. In order not to confuse users with highly outdated
docs, it is
recommended that the translations shall be dropped sooner or
later. Of
course, regional groups are highly encouraged to maintain
their own
translations in order to further promote NetBSD for their
native
users.
Overall, the event was a great success, and given esp. the
short
notice still a number of people have helped to make it so -
thank you
very much to all of them!
If you want to learn more about the 5th NetBSD Hackathon,
you can find
information at the NetBSD.se Wiki at
htt
p://wiki.netbsd.se/index.php?title=Hackathon5. People
interested in
working on any of the open issues feel free to communicate
via the
netbsd-docs NetBSD.org mailing list.
Regards,
Daniel
--
Daniel Sieger
Faculty of Technology
Bielefeld University
wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/dsieger
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