Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 01:14:17 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Jesse W Scott <Mathemajikian@home.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Documentation Project Message-ID: <20000713011414.B11472@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <396A79E9.F3AD3D1@home.com>; from Mathemajikian@home.com on Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 08:35:37PM -0500 References: <396A79E9.F3AD3D1@home.com>
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Jesse,
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 08:35:37PM -0500, Jesse W Scott wrote:
> I am wanting to join and help out with the documentation project that
> seems to really need alittle more help. I would like to know what I need
> to fill out to join
We're not that formal. You join by contributing :-)
> and what I can do to help.
We have a range of things in progress, and general tasks.
1. Read and update the existing documentation as necessary. For example,
if you discover that a man page, or a section in the Handbook no
longer reflects the current state of FreeBSD then submit updates to
the docs.
2. Volunteer to produce a conspectus for one of the lists, see
http://www.FreeBSD.org/conspectus/ for more information.
3. Submit new documentation (articles, chapters or sections for the
Handbook, Q&A for the FAQ. . .)
4. Read the -questions mailing list, and make sure that our FAQ is
actually answering questions that are frequently asked.
5. Read through the various PRs in the doc category. If some of them
suggest changes but don't include any actual suggested text to change
then try and write something that's better than what we have, and
submit it back for a committer to commit.
6. Pick a Linux HOWTO. Contact the original author and ask if they
mind it being rewritten to be more generic, so that it can cover
Linux and BSD. If they say yes then do so, and submit it back to
us as an article.
N
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