Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 09:34:01 -0500 From: CL Moonriver <clmoonriver@equinedreams.art> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, Sid <sid@bsdmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-doc@freebsd.org" <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Interested in helping with documentation Message-ID: <e7b03e93-3107-107d-2f21-998c0aebbb6c@equinedreams.art> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxg=qSzaMK7G-KtKkfzXD3g1hxpndiyKfZqxeKqiO169iWw@mail.gmail.com> References: <trinity-91e84f6a-80d5-44c4-ac37-7766f3e6bd1a-1530922129341@3c-app-mailcom-lxa14> <CAF6rxg=qSzaMK7G-KtKkfzXD3g1hxpndiyKfZqxeKqiO169iWw@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks to you both for the info. And glad to hear the path name got fixed for the xdm config files. I primarily use FreeBSD on the desktop, so I'll probably submit more corrections and changes to the Xorg section once I get finished reading the stuff about getting started. There are parts of it that are confusing and for the most part, don't seem to be necessary anymore, at least not in most cases. Such as a lot of the font configuration stuff. On 07/07/18 13:17, Eitan Adler wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 at 17:09, Sid <sid@bsdmail.com> wrote: >>> I'm pretty new to the community, but I'm interested in helping out in >> various ways. I don't know that there's a lot I can contribute yet >> (being so new), but I have noticed there are places in the documentation >> that are out of date and I could fix. For example, section 5.6.1 lists >> the Xorg xdm config files as being in /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm which it >> seems they are not in newer versions of FreeBSD. I found them in >> /usr/local/etc/X11/xdm. So at least when it comes to noticing errors >> like that, and fixing them, I think I can contribute. >> >>> I know the basics of Docbook and version control, so if there is a >> preferred way to submit corrections using diff files or something, I >> should be able to pick up on that fairly quickly. >> >>> Anyway, I'd love to help out, and just looking for some guidance on how >> to get started. > Sid gave you the correct links to get started. I will also echo that > the documentation committers are understaffed. That said, I wouldn't > take it the way Sid has: it does take some chasing of people to get > commits it, but it means that even small-time contributions can have a > big impact. > > Also, while my development computer is dead, and thus I can't commit > to much right now, I take mentoring new people to be much more > important than my own commits: if you submit patches I'll try to > review and commit them ASAP. > > > >
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