From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 18:22:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EB3C16A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 18:22:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.pelleg.org (gw.pelleg.org [205.201.13.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3A0C43D1F for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 18:22:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daniel+bsd@pelleg.org) Received: from lank.here (lank.wburn [192.168.3.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "gw.pelleg.org", Issuer "Dan Pelleg" (verified OK)) by gw.pelleg.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CA675A53; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:22:34 -0500 (EST) Received: by lank.here (Postfix, from userid 7675) id 43B28144; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:22:32 -0500 (EST) To: ecrist@adtechintegrated.com References: <3FFE920A.8000802@lineone.net> <16382.53268.395206.17975@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <200401091550.27129.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> From: Dan Pelleg Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 21:22:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200401091550.27129.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> (Eric F. Crist's message of "Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:50:11 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: Robert Huff cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the end of FreeBSD ?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 02:22:38 -0000 Eric F Crist writes: > On Friday 09 January 2004 10:00 am, Robert Huff wrote: >> While the donation will surely be welcome, may I suggest a >> place where you can make a more direct contribution? Especially >> since you have non-zero coding experience. >> Documentation. >> There are 192 open prs of category "docs"; none are Critical, >> but 15 are Serious. (Some look like they would take a couple of >> minutes to fix.) >> If nothing else, it would inspire a lot more confidence if the >> last review date for various man pages did not mention "FreeBSD >> 2.0.5" or even "1999". > > Where do I go to help edit man pages/docs? I would love to do a more direct > approach, maybe even earn a little recognition in the freebsd community as an > active participant. > > TIA Right here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/ Executive summary: install the textproc/docproj port, cvsup the doc tree, start generating patches, and send-pr them. -- Dan Pelleg