#18211 closed enhancement (fixed)
Enhance description of User Notes
| Reported by: | thomas | Owned by: | thomas |
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | 12.0 |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | git |
| Severity: | low | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
Rainer F reported on the ML:
... There should be a short introduction in the book what User Notes/Hints are about and in how they differ ...
I think thats a good point, the "BLFS Wiki" page can be enhanced a bit,
Change History (6)
follow-up: 2 comment:1 by , 3 years ago
comment:2 by , 3 years ago
Replying to Bruce Dubbs:
I'm inclined to just remove that page completely.
Yea, due to the fact that only editors do edit those pages, it shrinks donw a bit (at least the the itemlist will go away). OTOH, a comment about a sporadic appearing link might be useful to the reader and we should state somewhere, that the content of those pages might be reviewed but may be outdated nevertheless. The verified instructions are on the packages page, not in the notes.
comment:3 by , 3 years ago
what do you think about this one:
<title>Editor Notes</title>
<para>The BLFS Project has created a Wiki for editors to comment
on pages and instructions at <ulink url='&blfs-wiki;'/>.</para>
<para>When <emphasis>editor notes</emphasis> are present, a link
appears in the form <literal>&blfs-wiki;/pkgname</literal> right
below the dependency list. The idea behind the editor notes is to
give additional information about the package and/or its build
instructions, common pitfalls or maybe even more sophisticated
configuration for special cases of use.</para>
<para>The vast majority of the packages do not have editor notes.</para>
<note>
<para>
The <emphasis>editor notes</emphasis> might be outdated. Even the
pages should be reviewed on a regular basis, it might happen
that there are notes referring to an obsolete version and
therefore, the notes might be invalid. Always check the date
of the notes and more important, the version of the package the
notes refer to.
</para>
</note>
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comment:4 by , 3 years ago
I like that. The note should probably read:
The <emphasis>editor notes</emphasis> might be outdated. Even though the pages should be reviewed when a package is updated, it might happen that there are notes referring to an obsolete version and therefore, the notes might be out of date. Always check the date of the notes and more importantly, the version of the package the notes refer to.

I'm inclined to just remove that page completely.