I hope everyone enjoys the holidays!
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Merry Christmas
It's almost Christmas, so I thought I'd present to you this cute version of Blinky, the FreeDOS fish, wearing a Santa hat.
I hope everyone enjoys the holidays!
I hope everyone enjoys the holidays!
FD-DOC site move
Now that the bugzilla archive is done, I'm turning my attention to web cleanup. We have a lot of stale pages that are simply no longer being maintained (some are on www.freedos.org and others are not - for example, old mirror sites.) My goal is to identify the "dead" pages and get them deleted/removed, and have other sites cleaned up or consolidated.
That means we're doing a realignment within the FreeDOS Documentation Project (FD-DOC.) Currently, we're working in "silos" at a time when we really need to pull together behind a common system.
Having a separate FD-DOC project to manage the Spec, FAQ, and other docs doesn't really make sense. Eric is kind of the default owner of FD-DOC, but really he just runs that site because of the FAQ. Yet the rest of us (including me, sometimes) feel that the FD-DOC stuff is "hands off" and that it's one person's to maintain and edit. The rest of the docs never get updated, and eventually become so old they have incorrect information about FreeDOS. So I want to make it easier for users, and have the information out there be as up-to-date and correct as possible.
When the FD-DOC project was spun off from FreeDOS in 2001, it made sense to have a separate project to manage our docs. Eugene was with us to start FD-DOC at SourceForge, and he went through all the FreeDOS documentation from the www.freedos.org site, trying to organize everything into a single repository. FreeDOS was a lot more popular then, too. We had a lot of developers - and to manage everything, it was more effective to split up the major efforts into separate project.
But times have changed, we're a lot smaller now. We should start moving stuff back to the www.freedos.org site where it is more visibly part of the larger "FreeDOS community" - where everyone can help to contribute, and it's not in any one person's hands.
I'd like to start by moving the critical docs first:
That means we're doing a realignment within the FreeDOS Documentation Project (FD-DOC.) Currently, we're working in "silos" at a time when we really need to pull together behind a common system.
Having a separate FD-DOC project to manage the Spec, FAQ, and other docs doesn't really make sense. Eric is kind of the default owner of FD-DOC, but really he just runs that site because of the FAQ. Yet the rest of us (including me, sometimes) feel that the FD-DOC stuff is "hands off" and that it's one person's to maintain and edit. The rest of the docs never get updated, and eventually become so old they have incorrect information about FreeDOS. So I want to make it easier for users, and have the information out there be as up-to-date and correct as possible.
When the FD-DOC project was spun off from FreeDOS in 2001, it made sense to have a separate project to manage our docs. Eugene was with us to start FD-DOC at SourceForge, and he went through all the FreeDOS documentation from the www.freedos.org site, trying to organize everything into a single repository. FreeDOS was a lot more popular then, too. We had a lot of developers - and to manage everything, it was more effective to split up the major efforts into separate project.
But times have changed, we're a lot smaller now. We should start moving stuff back to the www.freedos.org site where it is more visibly part of the larger "FreeDOS community" - where everyone can help to contribute, and it's not in any one person's hands.
I'd like to start by moving the critical docs first:
- FreeDOS Manifesto
- FreeDOS Spec
- HOWTOs
- Mini HOWTOs
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About Me
- Jim Hall
- I'm Jim Hall, the founder and Project Coordinator for the FreeDOS Project. I started FreeDOS in 1994, when I was an undergraduate physics student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Other developers got in touch with me, and we began work creating our own version of DOS that would be compatible with MS-DOS. I shared the extended DOS utilities that I had written for myself, as did others. We also found public domain or open source programs that replaced other DOS commands. A few months later, we released our first FreeDOS “Alpha” distribution. And from there, FreeDOS grew into what you see today!
