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author | Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-08-03 18:59:36 +0000 |
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committer | Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-08-03 18:59:36 +0000 |
commit | a3a6aa326d89bfb70aab3a2c787f99f6e6243968 (patch) | |
tree | 876cdf35fca48f3c6dfc1cd40878393562f8a40c /en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.sgml | |
parent | 07b2f1f6c66df12b10fced8e877116b3e810782b (diff) | |
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Mailing lists entities addition.
Some punctuation and style corrections.
Use of manual pages entities.
Fix an old remain when that article was part of the Handbook and talked
about "FreeBSD Inc.", it's "FreeBSD Foundation" now.
Notes
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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.sgml index c3bce09c75..aa97af62a4 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.sgml @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ FreeBSD Entities//EN"> %freebsd; </listitem> <listitem> - <para>Read the freebsd-questions mailing list and &ng.misc; + <para>Read the &a.questions; and &ng.misc; occasionally (or even regularly). It can be very satisfying to share your expertise and help people solve their problems; sometimes you may even learn something new @@ -119,14 +119,14 @@ FreeBSD Entities//EN"> %freebsd; <sect2 id="ongoing-programmer-tasks"> <title>Ongoing Programmer Tasks</title> - <para>Most of the tasks listed here require a considerable - investment of time, an in-depth knowledge of the FreeBSD + <para>Most of the tasks listed here require either a considerable + investment of time, or 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> <orderedlist> <listitem> - <para>If you run FreeBSD-current and have a good Internet + <para>If you run FreeBSD-CURRENT and have a good Internet connection, there is a machine <hostid role="fqdn">current.FreeBSD.org</hostid> which builds a full release once a day—every now and again, try to @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ FreeBSD Entities//EN"> %freebsd; </listitem> <listitem> - <para>Read the freebsd-bugs mailing list. There might be a + <para>Read the &a.bugs;. There might 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> @@ -143,8 +143,8 @@ FreeBSD Entities//EN"> %freebsd; <listitem> <para>If you know of any bug fixes which have been - successfully applied to -current but have not been merged - into -stable after a decent interval (normally a couple of + successfully applied to -CURRENT but have not been merged + into -STABLE after a decent interval (normally a couple of weeks), send the committer a polite reminder.</para> </listitem> @@ -172,8 +172,8 @@ FreeBSD Entities//EN"> %freebsd; <listitem> <para>If you have contributed any ports, send your patches - back to the original author (this will make your life - easier when they bring out the next version)</para> + back to the original authors (this will make your life + easier when they bring out the next version).</para> </listitem> <listitem> @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ FreeBSD Entities//EN"> %freebsd; technical interest should be mailed to the &a.hackers;. Likewise, people with an interest in such things (and a tolerance for a <emphasis>high</emphasis> volume of mail!) may - subscribe to the hackers mailing list by sending mail to + subscribe to the &a.hackers; by sending mail to &a.majordomo;. See <ulink url="../../books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL">The FreeBSD Handbook</ulink> for more information about this and @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ FreeBSD Entities//EN"> %freebsd; url="../../books/fdp-primer/index.html">FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer</ulink> for complete instructions. Send submissions and changes (even small ones are welcome!) using - <command>send-pr</command> as described in <link + &man.send-pr.1; as described in <link linkend="contrib-general">Bug Reports and General Commentary</link>.</para> </sect2> @@ -292,18 +292,18 @@ FreeBSD Entities//EN"> %freebsd; <sect2> <title>Changes to Existing Source Code</title> - <indexterm><primary>FreeBSD-current</primary></indexterm> + <indexterm><primary>FreeBSD-CURRENT</primary></indexterm> <para>An addition or change to the existing source code is a somewhat trickier affair and depends a lot on how far out of date you are with the current state of FreeBSD development. There is a special on-going release of FreeBSD - known as <quote>FreeBSD-current</quote> which is made + known as <quote>FreeBSD-CURRENT</quote> which is made available in a variety of ways for the convenience of developers working actively on the system. See <ulink url=" ../../books/handbook/current-stable.html">The FreeBSD Handbook</ulink> for more information about getting and using - FreeBSD-current.</para> + FreeBSD-CURRENT.</para> <para>Working from older sources unfortunately means that your changes may sometimes be too obsolete or too divergent for @@ -376,12 +376,12 @@ FreeBSD Entities//EN"> %freebsd; distribution or you are simply not ready to release it without a tighter review first, then you should send it to &a.core; directly rather than submitting it with &man.send-pr.1;. The - core mailing list reaches a much smaller group of people who + &a.core; reaches a much smaller group of people who do much of the day-to-day work on FreeBSD. Note that this group is also <emphasis>very busy</emphasis> and so you should only send mail to them where it is truly necessary.</para> - <para>Please refer to &man.intro.9; and &man.style.9; style for + <para>Please refer to &man.intro.9; and &man.style.9; for some information on coding style. We would appreciate it if you were at least aware of this information before submitting code.</para> @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ FreeBSD Entities//EN"> %freebsd; work, include the following text at the very beginning of every source code file you wish to protect, replacing the text between the <literal>%%</literal> with the appropriate - information.</para> + information:</para> <programlisting>Copyright (c) %%proper_years_here%% %%your_name_here%%, %%your_state%% %%your_zip%%. @@ -530,9 +530,9 @@ THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para>General purpose hardware such as disk drives, memory - or complete systems should be sent to the FreeBSD, - Inc. address listed in the <emphasis>donating - funds</emphasis> section.</para> + or complete systems should be sent to the FreeBSD + Foundation address listed in the <link linkend="donations">donating + funds</link> section.</para> </listitem> <listitem> |