offer of assistance

[Mark Linimon]

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There's a very outdated article at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