From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 26 03:30:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC01716A4CE for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:30:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEBA943D45 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:30:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matt@atopia.net) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (pcp173278pcs.plsntv01.nj.comcast.net[68.46.70.37]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20040826033009014007nrqre>; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:30:10 +0000 Message-ID: <412D5B2A.3040909@atopia.net> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:38:18 -0400 From: Matt Juszczak User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040526) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Pentchev References: <412CB774.2060205@atopia.net> <20040825160344.GL1009@straylight.m.ringlet.net> In-Reply-To: <20040825160344.GL1009@straylight.m.ringlet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Involvement X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:30:11 -0000 Is there a list out there of man pages out of date or an easy way to search for them? Peter Pentchev wrote: >On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:59:48AM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote: > > >>Howdy Everyone, >> >>I'm a FreeBSD user who'd like to get involved in documentation. I've >>noticed a lot of man pages that are out of date and need to be updated. >>Where can I get started? >> >> > >Pick one of those (or five if you feel like it :), do the changes you >think need to be done, then use send-pr to submit a GNATS problem report >as described in the "Writing FreeBSD Problem Reports article" at >http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/ >Take care to specify 'doc' as the PR category - this will automatically >send your PR to this list, and we will all be able to review it, discuss >it, and hopefully eventually bring your changes into the tree :) > >You don't really have to submit your changes as direct patches to the >mdoc-format manual pages, though it is highly preferable. However, if >you don't feel too comfortable around mdoc(7), feel free to send us just >the text of your changes, and we'll mark them up properly. > >Thanks for your interest and desire to help! > >G'luck, >Peter > > >