discuss: Removing the RCS/CVS HOWTO for review
Subject:
Re: Removing the RCS/CVS HOWTO for review
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
12 Nov 2003 21:02:39 -0000
Message-Id: <20031112204441.GA847@lafn.org>
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:42:34PM +0100, Chr. Clemens Lee wrote:
> Hi all, John,
>
> curious from all the talk about how bad the al dev stuff really is, I
> took a peak at the cvs doc. I must say, it isn't soo bad. All the basic
> update, commit stuff etc. is described. When having the choice between
> no document and that one, I would vote for the second option.
>
> So if you want to remove it, I suggest someone writes a better
> replacement first. I also wouldn't mind to have the choice between 3 or
> more different documents covering a similar topic (as there is also a
> document covering only RCS on tldp).
>
> Further more if people use google searching for "cvs howto", guess what,
> the tldp howto pops up on the number one spot. I am sure I haven't
> linked to the cvs doc, but I assume some people must have done so, or it
> wouldn't have gotten to the top. This shows at least some popularity.
It only shows popularity for LDP as many sites link to all LDP HOWTOs
without evaluating each HOWTO individually. So the fact that there are
a huge number of links to all LDP HOWTOs doesn't imply that all HOWTOs
are worthwhile.
> There are other cvs howtos out there that didn't get the number one
> spot. So I am not sure if removing the cvs document would do the linux
> documentation project any favour (or any people looking for cvs help).
>
> Just my $0.02,
> Clemens
David Lawyer
