Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 19:36:06 -0500 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: nclayton@lehman.com Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FreeBSD User Guide Message-ID: <369A98F6.F730DD01@aei.ca> References: <36958776.15E4FD19@aei.ca> <19990111105336.E12726@lehman.com>
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nclayton@lehman.com wrote: > Malartre, this looks great. I don't see any reason why this shouldn't be > linked to from both the newbies page on the site and the current FreeBSD > FAQ (i.e., "Q: I'm new to Unix as well as new to FreeBSD, is there > anything I can read? A: Try _this_ FAQ." > > Would you be interested in bringing this in as a supplementary FAQ to the > existing FreeBSD FAQ, and joining the increasingly swelling ranks of the > FreeBSD committers? > > This would be a fair amount of work, but would also bring some (hopefully) > large benefits; > > Work: > > o It would need to be converted from GHTML to DocBook. This is > probably a bit of a shift. . . > > o You'd need to learn CVS, and the do's and don'ts of being a > committer. > > Benefits: > > o It's on the primary FreeBSD site. This makes it more accessible, > and it will appear on the mirror sites as well. > > o It could be installable with the system, so it's available to > people even when they're not on-line. > > o It would be easy to produce printable versions (PostScript, PDF, RTF) > and plain text versions using the existing tools. > > o The various Documentation Translation teams could get to work on > translating it to other languages. > > o People can suggest changes to it in the same way they suggest > changes to FreeBSD at the moment, using send-pr. > > o I get a new committer who can work through some of my tutorials and > help me improve them :-) > > N > -- Sure, I am very interested. Where do I start? I will start with the docbook beast and I will try http://www.freebsd.org/~nik/primer/index.html for the conversion. For the CVS thing, I don't know anything. If you have some links, it would make it easier. I will also man cvs. And I will try send-pr. Anything else? :-) Thank You -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] [French piss me off - Cartman, South Park] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the messagehelp
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