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Date:      Sun, 29 Oct 2017 10:17:12 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Documentation
Message-ID:  <1509293832.21609.7.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <f5415cb5-939c-70d2-907e-37293f93bdd5@freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 2017-10-29 at 11:37 -0400, Allan Jude wrote:
> On 2017-10-29 11:00, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > > 
> > > How can we suggest edits for the docs?
> > Checkout the docs repo:
> > 
> >   svn checkout https://svnweb.freebsd.org/doc/head/ .
> > 
> > Change the relevant files, create a new problem report on
> > 
> >   https://bugs.freebsd.org/
> > 
> > and attach the svn diff to that problem report.
> > 
> Since the document in question is a man page, it actually lives in
> the
> src tree.
> 
> svn checkout https://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/ .
> 
> cd usr.sbin/jail
> 
> vi jail.8
> 
> svn diff > jail_manpage.patch
> 
> And then attach that patch to a bugzilla, or upload it to
> reviews.freebsd.org
> 
> 

I hope I'm right in thinking that just submitting the proposed changes
as plain text would also be an option?  I suspect there are more people
with good ideas on improving manpages than there are people who've
decided they really want to learn the arcane skill of manpage markup
language.

-- Ian



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