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Date:      Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:58:13 +0100
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Guy Helmer <ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov>
Cc:        doc@freebsd.org, cvs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: open docs PRs
Message-ID:  <19990223105813.D27307@cs.tu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.05.9902222201270.13532-100000@demios.scl.ameslab.gov>; from Guy Helmer on Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 10:04:43PM -0600
References:  <19990222214142.A5464@cs.tu-berlin.de> <Pine.SGI.4.05.9902222201270.13532-100000@demios.scl.ameslab.gov>

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On 1999-02-22 22:04:43 -0600, Guy Helmer wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Wolfram Schneider wrote:
> 
> > Could someone please check the open documenation bug reports?
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?category=docs&responsible=.
> > 	
> > The 'typo in XYZ' or 'add a link/user groups etc.' reports are easy to
> > fix. You just need a little bit free time ;-)
> 
> Is it safe/good to fix typos in things that are in contrib?  I see several
> PR's for contributed stuff, and I seem to remember the CVS meister warning
> against "trivial" changes to such files.

You should first contact the author of the contributed software
and send him/her a description of the problem and a patch.

If he/she confirms the bug and will fix it in the next release,
you can fix the typos in contrib too.

-- 
Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://wolfram.schneider.org


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