From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jun 10 10:43:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FECF37B407 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:43:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g5A7efl87549; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 08:40:41 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 08:40:41 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: tyler spivey Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what tree to base patches on? Message-ID: <20020610084041.O39690@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20020609042549.UBNM15017.priv-edtnes10-hme0.telusplanet.net@a7a42593> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yAzUYvkKIfeS0jQX" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020609042549.UBNM15017.priv-edtnes10-hme0.telusplanet.net@a7a42593>; from tspivey8@telus.net on Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 10:25:49PM -0600 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --yAzUYvkKIfeS0jQX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 10:25:49PM -0600, tyler spivey wrote: > i'm new to the whole freebsd/etc sceen, but I want to contribute what i c= an. > What source tree should i base my patches (man pages, typos etc) on? Depends. If the problem is present in both -current and -stable then ideally base the patch on -current. But if the problem is only present in -stable then base it on the files in the -stable tree. Note that this only applies to the man pages. The other docs (FAQ, Handbook, etc) are not branched. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__) FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',) \/ \= ^ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- .\._/= _) --yAzUYvkKIfeS0jQX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9BFf3k6gHZCw343URAmesAJ4xahEYE7jgY0KIpF+Qb/ffbg5YJwCeIuXm IvHwjGQV+fbpXPFmtkLxRdQ= =INgx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yAzUYvkKIfeS0jQX-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message