svn commit: r51488 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing
Sevan Janiyan
sevan at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 16 20:36:58 UTC 2018
Author: sevan
Date: Fri Mar 16 20:36:57 2018
New Revision: 51488
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51488
Log:
Improve wording.
PR: 212992
Submitted by: <duncam2 AT rpi Dot edu>
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12075
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.xml Fri Mar 16 17:48:35 2018 (r51487)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.xml Fri Mar 16 20:36:57 2018 (r51488)
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Read through the FAQ and Handbook periodically. If
- anything is badly explained, out of date or even just
- completely wrong, let us know. Even better, send us a fix
+ anything is poorly explained, ambiguous, out of date or
+ incorrect, let us know. Even better, send us a fix
(Docbook is not difficult to learn, but there is no
objection to ASCII submissions).</para>
</listitem>
@@ -92,8 +92,9 @@
<para>Help translate FreeBSD documentation into your native
language. If documentation already exists for your
language, you can help translate additional documents or
- verify that the translations are up-to-date. First take a
- look at the <link xlink:href="&url.books.fdp-primer;/translations.html">Translations
+ verify that the translations are up-to-date and correct.
+ First take a look at the <link
+ xlink:href="&url.books.fdp-primer;/translations.html">Translations
FAQ</link> in the FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer.
You are not committing yourself to translating every
single FreeBSD document by doing this — as a
@@ -109,8 +110,8 @@
even regularly). It can be very satisfying to share your
expertise and help people solve their problems; sometimes
you may even learn something new yourself! These forums
- can also be a source of ideas for things to work
- on.</para>
+ can also be a source of ideas for things to improve upon.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</sect2>
@@ -118,8 +119,8 @@
<sect2 xml:id="ongoing-programmer-tasks">
<title>Ongoing Programmer Tasks</title>
- <para>Most of the tasks listed here require either a
- considerable investment of time, or an in-depth knowledge of
+ <para>Most of the tasks listed here may require a
+ considerable investment of time, an in-depth knowledge of
the FreeBSD kernel, or both. However, there are also many
useful tasks which are suitable for
<quote>weekend hackers</quote>.</para>
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Read the &a.bugs;. There might be a problem you can
+ <para>Read the &a.bugs;. There may be a problem you can
comment constructively on or with patches you can test.
Or you could even try to fix one of the problems
yourself.</para>
@@ -470,7 +471,8 @@
site</link>.</para>
<para>More information about the FreeBSD Foundation can be
- found in <link xlink:href="https://people.FreeBSD.org/~jdp/foundation/announcement.html">The
+ found in <link
+ xlink:href="https://people.FreeBSD.org/~jdp/foundation/announcement.html">The
FreeBSD Foundation -- an Introduction</link>. To contact
the Foundation by email, write to
<email>bod at FreeBSDFoundation.org</email>.</para>
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