Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:06:20 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things all ports mentors and potential mentees should know Message-ID: <AANLkTinZxQwodGu7Rzm_npd-XDj3vQfX2e%2BY4bxTx-rL@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110305165057.GD56261@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20101130150839.GH52404@hub.freebsd.org> <AANLkTinosnTMZQ8ZUPHbNrg2z3Ps0euX8rGDofZ_1-mx@mail.gmail.com> <20110305165057.GD56261@hub.freebsd.org>
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On 5 March 2011 16:50, Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 01:48:40PM +0000, Chris Rees wrote: >> On 30 November 2010 15:08, Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> wrote= : >> > Greetings list >> > >> > This document was initially prepared by portmgr@ as a means of >> > addressing issues around ports quality, in addition to informing >> > mentors/mentees their duties and obligations within the ports tree. >> > >> > It has gone through some peer review among ports committers, integrati= ng >> > feedback from the community at large. =A0This is intended as a living, >> > growing document to be updated and modified over time. =A0At some poin= t >> > in the future, it will likely get rendered for use on the WWW, in the >> > meantime it is being tracked as a text file. >> > >> > Without further delay, I would like to present Mentoring Guidelines, >> > feedback welcome! >> > >> >> <bits from http://people.freebsd.org/~portmgr/mentor_guidelines.txt.asc>; >> >> Hi, >> >> I was thinking of volunteering to render this in SGML to go >> into the Committer's Guide... perhaps at the bottom of [1]? >> >> Is anyone working on this, or should I get started? >> >> Chris >> >> [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide= /conventions.html >> > > Hi Chris > > Thank you for your generous offer! =A0This is something on my long term > todo list, and is not yet on the radar, so if you want to sgmlise the > mentor guidelines, I would greatly welcome! > > Do your bit to render the doc, and I can work with you and maybe a doc > committer to get it in. > > > Thomas Hi all, I've just finished rendering the mentor/mentee guidelines; I've stuck it in (for want of a better place) the Committer's Guide. The source for my changes is: http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/mentor_mentee_guidelines.diff It's rendered here: http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/comm.html#MENTOR.GUIDELINES Does anyone have any comments so far? Chris PS Hope you're proud of me for learning how to format SGML the 'proper way'; I may go back and fix the Tinderbox docs too to make them less offensive when I have time...
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