Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 13:28:51 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD documentation (was: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970625124950.12349A-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199706251633.MAA24988@federation.addy.com>
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On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Now that I have a bit more knowledge I lack the time, and still don't > know how to contribute to the doc project. In particular it should be > easy to find the location of the existing documents, how changes > should be submited (including an example on using diff) and to who > they should be submited. A template SGML file would also be very > helpful (if SGML is still been used) I'll see what I can do to documenting and streamline the submission policy. The best info at the moment is http://www.freebsd.org/docproj.html, but it isn't very prominent and could use a lot more "how to" information. It may be better to de-emphasize issues of document format. If the *content* is good, I really don't care what the format is--SGML tagging is fairly mindless work. Unfortunatly, good programming skill and good technical writing skill seem to be mutually exclusive in practice. The FreeBSD crowd tends to have a lot more programmers than writers. -john
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