From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Feb 23 2: 4:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9151110C3; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 02:02:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (wosch@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.12]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA07338; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:58:45 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA29075; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:58:17 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19990223105813.D27307@cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:58:13 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Guy Helmer Cc: doc@freebsd.org, cvs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: open docs PRs References: <19990222214142.A5464@cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Guy Helmer on Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 10:04:43PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1999-02-22 22:04:43 -0600, Guy Helmer wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > > > Could someone please check the open documenation bug reports? > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?category=docs&responsible=. > > > > The 'typo in XYZ' or 'add a link/user groups etc.' reports are easy to > > fix. You just need a little bit free time ;-) > > Is it safe/good to fix typos in things that are in contrib? I see several > PR's for contributed stuff, and I seem to remember the CVS meister warning > against "trivial" changes to such files. You should first contact the author of the contributed software and send him/her a description of the problem and a patch. If he/she confirms the bug and will fix it in the next release, you can fix the typos in contrib too. -- Wolfram Schneider http://wolfram.schneider.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message