Involvement

Matt Juszczak matt at atopia.net
Thu Aug 26 03:30:11 UTC 2004


Is there a list out there of man pages out of date or an easy way to 
search for them?

Peter Pentchev wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:59:48AM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote:
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>>Howdy Everyone,
>>
>>I'm a FreeBSD user who'd like to get involved in documentation.  I've 
>>noticed a lot of man pages that are out of date and need to be updated.  
>>Where can I get started?
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>Pick one of those (or five if you feel like it :), do the changes you
>think need to be done, then use send-pr to submit a GNATS problem report
>as described in the "Writing FreeBSD Problem Reports article" at
>http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/
>Take care to specify 'doc' as the PR category - this will automatically
>send your PR to this list, and we will all be able to review it, discuss
>it, and hopefully eventually bring your changes into the tree :)
>
>You don't really have to submit your changes as direct patches to the
>mdoc-format manual pages, though it is highly preferable.  However, if
>you don't feel too comfortable around mdoc(7), feel free to send us just
>the text of your changes, and we'll mark them up properly.
>
>Thanks for your interest and desire to help!
>
>G'luck,
>Peter
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