Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 09:38:25 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Documentation Message-ID: <201710291638.v9TGcPIk023700@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> of "Sun, 29 Oct 2017 10:17:12 -0600." <1509293832.21609.7.camel@freebsd.org>
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In message <1509293832.21609.7.camel@freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore writes: > 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. That's a useful skill too. Not just here but in Solaris, AIX and Linux. IMO every sysadmin should have a rudimentary nroff markup skill. But if the markup is indeed an impediment, just sending in text will work too. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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