>Number:         30232
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Getting Started Using Anonymous CVS missing
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat May 14 22:00:00 +0000 2005
>Originator:     Hanspeter Roth
>Release:        NetBSD 2.0.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
	
	
System: NetBSD goofy.here 2.0.2 NetBSD 2.0.2 (GENERIC_LAPTOP) #0: Wed Mar 23 08:59:09 UTC 2005 jmc@faith.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-2-RELEASE/i386/200503220140Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-2-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC_LAPTOP i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	In the documentation in chapter 'Obtaining sources by CVS' there is a
	section "Getting Started Using Anonymous CVS" missing as do the
	OpenBSD people have http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html#starting .
	Starting to checkout a new CVS tree by 'cvs checkout' is awfully slow;
	at least with a dialup line. So to start with a snapshot via FTP is
	preferable in my opinion.
	Studying the cvs(1) man page takes some time and some info is put into
	the info system. I don't use info(1) frequently. So I'm lost in 
	navigating in info(1) each time I'm forced to use it.
	So there should be a section in the style of a cookbook as the
	OpenBSD people have.
	Maybe switching the anoncvs server may also be considered:
	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2005/05/08/0000.html
>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:
	Such a description should be available in English. 
	If it is available in other languages, then it's nice.
	But the "need" to translate into other languages should not hinder
	to provide the section in English only.

>Unformatted: