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Date:      Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:05:48 +0800
From:      Guangyuan Yang <yzgyyang@gmail.com>
To:        Benedict Reuschling <bcr@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@freebsd.org>, Nikolai Lvovich <nikolaibitinit@gmail.com>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Willing to help with documentation
Message-ID:  <CABBk%2B3pTEsjOKPC6T8jRWWGugcmhqGqt5OB-OB1GreexiWAQdA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 2:03 AM Benedict Reuschling <bcr@freebsd.org> wrote:

>
>
> Am 17.12.18 um 05:47 schrieb Benjamin Kaduk:
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 01:55:07AM +0530, Nikolai Lvovich wrote:
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> I am new to the FreeBSD project (using since FreeBSD 11.1), and I use
> it as
> >> only desktop OS during my university research, for frankly, I am amazed
> by
> >> the quality and reliability of it, including the friendly handbook.
> >>
> >> However, I notice a few outdated info now and then in both
> >>
> >>
> >>    1. 1. FreeBSD handbook
> >>    2. 2. FreeBSD developer's handbook.
> >>
> >>
> >> I am willing to help the project by updating the handbook. Please let me
> >> know if you guys are interested in my request :)
> >
> > Generally we are, with the caveat that getting volunteers to have the
> time
> > to look at submissions can require persistence and manual pestering.
> > You'll likely want to read
> > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/ and submit
> > some bugzilla entries
> > (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Documentation).
> > Feel free to hop on to #bsddocs on efnet as well, whether for
> > questions/discussion or to pester people to look at your patches.
> >
> > -Ben
>
> Hello Nikolai,
>
> I'm glad to hear that you want to help out. Benjamin already covered a
> good amount of starting points. If you have a list of things or even
> just small bugs that need to be fixed, let us know. The "Quick Start"
> section in the FDP primer should get you started:
>
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/overview.html#overview-quick-start
>
> If you have any questions or get stuck, let us know.
>
> Regards,
> Benedict


I just wanted to add that if you have a larger patch for documentation,
it's always welcome (or preferred, by myself) to submit it to Phabricator
https://reviews.freebsd.org and add "doc" group as reviewer. I don't think
it's documented in FDP yet, but it's something I'm doing right now :)

Again, please don't hesitate to ask for help here!

Best,
Guangyuan



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