HEADS UP: doc/ slush begins

[Brad Davis]

On Sunday 19 September 2004 04:52, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:51:26AM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:24:19AM -0600, Brad Davis wrote:
> > > On Sat, September 18, 2004 1:13 am, Hiroki Sato said:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > >  As announced, the doc/ tree is now in a slush.  Please postpone all
> > > >  non-essential changes until after the doc/ tree is tagged (currently
> > > >  scheduled for 24 September, 2004).
> > > >
> > > >  While this is not a real freeze, if you need to commit a relatively
> > > >  large change to fix or improve our documentation for 5.3-RELEASE,
> > > >  please put a note for translators onto your commit log.
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a complete rewrite of the Firewall section. I have been trying
> > > to work with Tom, but I think he is busy doing other stuff. I would
> > > like to see this make it in before the 5.3 release. If anyone is
> > > interested I have patches and the HTML output here:
> > >
> > > http://freebsd.so14k.com/firewall/
> > >
> > > It needs to be merged against the current version of the handbook, but
> > > that shouldn't be too hard.
> >
> > Comment #1 Brad: there are whitespace changes mixed in here.  With a
> > patch of this size, that's bad (because it means it will take a long
> > time for someone to take them out again).
>
> You are also missing a <contrib> element for your entry in the
> authorgroup.
>
> I'll read the rest of it before I reply again, I promise. ;-)

I'll begin working on this now. I'd like to invite all of you to help me on 
IRC in #freebsd-doc on irc.freenode.net.


Regards,
Brad
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