Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 02:08:49 +0200 From: Sid <sid@bsdmail.com> To: clmoonriver@equinedreams.art Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interested in helping with documentation Message-ID: <trinity-91e84f6a-80d5-44c4-ac37-7766f3e6bd1a-1530922129341@3c-app-mailcom-lxa14>
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The guide is here, https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/ , it takes downloading the documentation source code, adjusting your console editor for tabs and spacing, and dealing with igor. Once you get that, submit it to https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ I've proposed suggestions, including changing the configuration directory, but they sit there for months. Documentation contributors are understaffed. It is discouraging. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224375 I had another one that gave a more detail, gave how to configure the login screen, and took away focus from Gnome, XFCE and KDE for universal settings for any window manager. I deleted that one after it was ignored for even more months, and tried to get the most basic edit in. > 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there's a lot I can contribute yet (being so new), but I have noticed there are places in the documentation that are out of date and I could fix.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.
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