Contributing to the FreeBSD documentation (was: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors chapter.sgml)

[Josh Paetzel]

On Sunday 14 November 2004 20:40, Tom Hukins wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 02:07:57PM +0000, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> > In my experience (please don't take this as a whiney complaint)
> > most of my input has been ignored.
>
> As far as I can tell, you have submitted 3 PRs.  Two of your
> suggestions have been incorporated into FreeBSD, the other one is
> still new.
>
> % query-pr -O paetzel --summary
>    28970 freebsd- docs     closed    non-criti low      current-us
> Handbook fix for section 4.3.1 60370 ale      docs     closed   
> non-criti low      current-us [patch] Clarification of
> textproc/docproj* ports in fdp-primer 73760 freebsd- docs     open 
>     non-criti low      current-us [patch] 5.3-RELEASE and possibly
> older 5.x systems need 3 floppies to boot the installer
>
> You may have made suggestions in other ways, but submitting a PR is
> the best way to ensure that your ideas don't get forgotten about.
>
> > Just a recent example of this is docs/73760.  I submitted a PR w/
> > patch and it's been "ignored" (there are no replies to it).
>
> It's only four days old, so I wouldn't say it's being ignored.  I
> know that waiting for your hard work to find its way into FreeBSD
> can feel frustrating, though.
>
> Tom

Thanks for the encouragement. :D



Josh Paetzel