What is the end of FreeBSD ?!

Dan Pelleg daniel+bsd at pelleg.org
Fri Jan 9 18:22:38 PST 2004


Eric F Crist <ecrist at adtechintegrated.com> writes:

> On Friday 09 January 2004 10:00 am, Robert Huff wrote:
>> 	While the donation will surely be welcome, may I suggest a
>> place where you can make a more direct contribution?  Especially
>> since you have non-zero coding experience.
>> 	Documentation.
>> 	There are 192 open prs of category "docs"; none are Critical,
>> but 15 are Serious.  (Some look like they would take a couple of
>> minutes to fix.)
>> 	If nothing else, it would inspire a lot more confidence if the
>> last review date for various man pages did not mention "FreeBSD
>> 2.0.5" or even "1999".
>
> Where do I go to help edit man pages/docs?  I would love to do a more direct 
> approach, maybe even earn a little recognition in the freebsd community as an 
> active participant.
>
> TIA

Right here:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/

Executive summary: install the textproc/docproj port, cvsup the doc tree,
start generating patches, and send-pr them.

-- 

  Dan Pelleg


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