From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 18 18:27:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7040E37B400; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:27:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D40B343E5E; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:27:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g6J1RrK1083918; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:27:53 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:27:52 -0400 To: Robert Watson From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 8:45 PM -0400 7/18/02, Robert Watson wrote: >I've seen many base system developers commit man pages, but few >commit to the docbook/sgml side of things in the doc project. >[...] The FreeBSD src developer community is, after all, a >community of people who write software that frequently ships >with man pages. Sure, the nroff markup may not be the best, >but it's still workable. In my case, I don't actually "know" nroff. I just look at other man pages and copy what they seem to be doing... On the other hand, I know even less about sgml. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message