Subject: New NetBSD developer's guide [was Re: File systems documentation]
To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
From: Mike M. Volokhov <mishka@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-docs
Date: 01/27/2006 16:08:04
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:14:15 +0000
Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net> wrote:

> "Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > one of the goals of the tmpfs Summer of Code project was to write
> > documentation about NetBSD's VFS subsystem.  During August, I wrote
> > part of it but, unfortunately, it wasn't made public (my mentor, whom
> > I'm CCin, even reviewed it).

This is really good news!

[snip]
> How about splitting this into the 'NetBSD developers guide' or 'NetBSD
> development guide' ?

Seconded.

[snip]
> > I'd like to add this to htdocs as is instead of keeping the files
> > privately.  Yes, they are incomplete, but they can currently help
> > potential contributors to understand how file systems work; plus
> > they can also make other writers contribute other stuff.
> 
> Please go ahead and commit to htdocs.

I wish to create yet another section on NetBSD website to store this
book separately from the Guide. It's should not be in htdocs/developers,
because it's not only TNF developer's documentation (rather doc for
NetBSD development). And it is, of course, far beyound user guide.

So let's starting from choosing name of The Book. And after that I'll
dispatch it to the site.

Variants for the reference:

1. NetBSD Internals
2. NetBSD Design & Implementation
3. NetBSD Developer's Handbook
4. NetBSD System Programming 
5. Understanding NetBSD
6. your variant

Your opinions, please?

--
Mishka.