On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:43:30PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > it occurs to me that a useful project would be to identify anything
> > under the Documentation/ directory that no longer has any value and
> > can be removed, just to keep readers from being misled by out-of-date
> > documentation.
> >
> > anything there that looks eminently removable?
>
> That should not be a KJ project.
>
> I've already removed some of the worst documentation.
>
> The problem is that most documentation still contains some valuable
> bits.
>
> And letting janitors judge what "no longer has any value" could
> easily result in a fiasco similar to what happened when janitors
> discovered checkpatch.
i understand the potential for over-enthusiasm, which is why i started
off just by *asking* if people knew of anything that was removable,
whereupon there could be a discussion. but your point is well-taken
so let's just pretend i'd worded that differently in the first place.
:-)
rday
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