Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:16:50 -0600 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> Cc: docs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: offer of assistance Message-ID: <20091214101650.GA18644@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <78e0dabc0912121450g3abf9272jf4dcdf0590035a5c@mail.gmail.com> References: <78e0dabc0912121450g3abf9272jf4dcdf0590035a5c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 05:50:53PM -0500, David Mehler wrote: > I was wondering if you could use assistance. Always! :-) There's a very outdated article at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/ but even though the specifics are dated, the URLs it contains are good places to learn. I'm sure you're already familiar with the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ but if not the introductory material is quite useful. From there the next step is to take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/ to understand how the doc builds work. My own experience is that a fresh set of eyes reading through the documentation is always helpful. The source base changes so quickly that the doc team can't keep up. So, auditing the 'articles and books' is always a good idea (based on your own experience installing, configuring, and running FreeBSD). You can also take a look at the backlog of PRs on http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?category=docs and http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?category=www and look at the ones not tagged '[patch]' to see if they are things that you can work on. Good luck! mcl
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