Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:38:18 -0400 From: Matt Juszczak <matt@atopia.net> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Involvement Message-ID: <412D5B2A.3040909@atopia.net> In-Reply-To: <20040825160344.GL1009@straylight.m.ringlet.net> References: <412CB774.2060205@atopia.net> <20040825160344.GL1009@straylight.m.ringlet.net>
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Is there a list out there of man pages out of date or an easy way to search for them? Peter Pentchev wrote: >On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:59:48AM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote: > > >>Howdy Everyone, >> >>I'm a FreeBSD user who'd like to get involved in documentation. I've >>noticed a lot of man pages that are out of date and need to be updated. >>Where can I get started? >> >> > >Pick one of those (or five if you feel like it :), do the changes you >think need to be done, then use send-pr to submit a GNATS problem report >as described in the "Writing FreeBSD Problem Reports article" at >http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/ >Take care to specify 'doc' as the PR category - this will automatically >send your PR to this list, and we will all be able to review it, discuss >it, and hopefully eventually bring your changes into the tree :) > >You don't really have to submit your changes as direct patches to the >mdoc-format manual pages, though it is highly preferable. However, if >you don't feel too comfortable around mdoc(7), feel free to send us just >the text of your changes, and we'll mark them up properly. > >Thanks for your interest and desire to help! > >G'luck, >Peter > > >
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