Re: A Question about Contributing

On Mon, 1 Sept 2025 at 23:05, ERIC Frederickson
<ericfrederickson68@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm Eric, a passionate FreeBSD user looking to start contributing to the
> project. Writing documentation is a strong suit of mine, so I thought I'd send a
> message to this mailing list to ask if there's any documentation work needing to
> be done that I could start looking into.
>
> Throughout my time exploring the world of free software, the clarity and
> eloquence of FreeBSD's documentation (particularly in the Handbook and the man
> pages) has been a source of inspiration for me, and has guided me towards the
> standards I try to meet when documenting my own projects. I hope to one day make
> useful additions to these sources of knowledge that have provided great utility
> to me.
>
> Thank you, and best wishes,
> --
> Eric Frederickson
> https://emfred.com
>

Hello Eric,

First of all, thank you very much for your interest in contributing to
FreeBSD :)

To start, I think it would be best if you read the FDP[1].
There you can learn how to work with the documentation, the tools you
need to install, etc.

Once you're clear on everything and want to make a change, you need to
send us the patch.
Where can you send it?

Well, you have several options:
- If you're used to working with Github, submit a PR [2]
- Another option is to create a new report in Bugzilla [3]
- Or finally, open a review in [4]

Bye!

[1] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/fdp-primer/
[2] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pulls
[3] https://bugs.freebsd.org/
[4] https://reviews.freebsd.org