Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:23:11 -0600 From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: "Eric P. Scott" <eps+pqry0612@ana.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2-RC2 Available Message-ID: <20061228132311.GA22749@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <200612281254.kBSCscUU027061@anna.ana.com> References: <200612281254.kBSCscUU027061@anna.ana.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 04:54:38AM -0800, Eric P. Scott wrote: > You need to try to put yourself in an end user's frame of reference. It's > easy to understand why even fairly experienced folks can find FreeBSD > documentation baffling. The FreeBSD Documentation Project is always in search of new volunteers. There are parts of the documentation that are, to put it charitably, a little bit dusty. (Clearly the preferential listings for floppies speaks of this). See http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ for the best introduction on what the doc project is, and how to contribute. We have mailing lists (one for -doc, and one for -www; the latter is about things that appear only on the website). We also have an IRC channel. Basically, we have much more work than available volunteers right now. I think you have some good ideas; the best thing, of course, would be if you could develop patches (the subset of SGML that we use is really not a very difficult markup language to learn), but if not, perhaps you can participate on the freebsd-doc@ mailing list and see if you can attract any interest in specific proposals. Further discussion on this topic should probably go to -doc rathern than -stable. Thanks. mcl
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20061228132311.GA22749>