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authorChern Lee <chern@FreeBSD.org>2001-07-14 00:06:54 +0000
committerChern Lee <chern@FreeBSD.org>2001-07-14 00:06:54 +0000
commit0cd5b44fec5e244b703b6d54e3ce20cac77eefba (patch)
tree5f6a1e1f5e3272b622ac8bd18f8007537c6623e0 /en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/contrib
parent8f28d1f75d882b135febf3c15ba407fe47fb179d (diff)
Add <indexterm>'s to contrib chapter.
Fix <command>man 9 intro</command <command>man 9 style</command> -> proper man entities. Submitted by: Valentino Vaschetto <valentino.vaschetto@windriver.com> Approved by: murray
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Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=9889
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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/contrib/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/contrib/chapter.sgml
index 830cfb1c6e..9874e551f1 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/contrib/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/contrib/chapter.sgml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
<!--
The FreeBSD Documentation Project
- $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/contrib/chapter.sgml,v 1.447 2001/07/13 19:14:44 chern Exp $
+ $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/contrib/chapter.sgml,v 1.448 2001/07/13 21:22:49 chern Exp $
-->
<chapter id="contrib">
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
<para><emphasis>Contributed by &a.jkh;.</emphasis></para>
+ <indexterm><primary>contributing</primary></indexterm>
<para>So you want to contribute something to FreeBSD? That is great! We can
always use the help, and FreeBSD is one of those systems that
<emphasis>relies</emphasis> on the contributions of its user base in order
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@
<sect2>
<title>High priority tasks</title>
+ <indexterm><primary>todo list</primary></indexterm>
<para>The following tasks are considered to be urgent, usually because
they represent something that is badly broken or sorely needed:</para>
@@ -404,6 +406,7 @@
<sect2>
<title>Work through the PR database</title>
+ <indexterm><primary>problem reports database</primary></indexterm>
<para>The <ulink
url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi">FreeBSD PR
list</ulink> shows all the current active problem reports and
@@ -465,6 +468,7 @@
<sect2>
<title>Changes to the documentation</title>
+ <indexterm><primary>documentation submissions</primary></indexterm>
<para>Changes to the documentation are overseen by the &a.doc;. Send
submissions and changes (even small ones are welcome!) using
<command>send-pr</command> as described in <link
@@ -475,6 +479,7 @@
<sect2>
<title>Changes to existing source code</title>
+ <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 the core FreeBSD development. There is a special
@@ -496,6 +501,7 @@
command, with the <quote>context diff</quote> form
being preferred. For example:</para>
+ <indexterm><primary>diff</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>diff -c oldfile newfile</userinput></screen>
@@ -517,6 +523,7 @@
address it immediately, but it will remain in the pr database until we
do.</para>
+ <indexterm><primary>uuencode</primary></indexterm>
<para>If you feel it appropriate (e.g. you have added, deleted, or
renamed files), bundle your changes into a <command>tar</command> file
and run the &man.uuencode.1; program on it. Shar archives are also
@@ -529,12 +536,12 @@
with &man.send-pr.1;. The core mailing list 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>
+ should only send mail to them where it is truly necessary.</para>
- <para>Please refer to <command>man 9 intro</command> and <command>man 9
- style</command> for some information on coding style. We would
- appreciate it if you were at least aware of this information before
- submitting code.</para>
+ <para>Please refer to &man.intro.9; and &man.style.9; style for
+ some information on coding style. We would appreciate it if you
+ were at least aware of this information before submitting
+ code.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
@@ -553,6 +560,7 @@
included in FreeBSD are:</para>
<orderedlist>
+ <indexterm><primary>BSD copyright</primary></indexterm>
<listitem>
<para>The BSD copyright. This copyright is most preferred due to
its <quote>no strings attached</quote> nature and general
@@ -562,6 +570,8 @@
inclined to invest something of their own into FreeBSD.</para>
</listitem>
+ <indexterm><primary>GPL</primary></indexterm>
+ <indexterm><primary>GNU Public License</primary></indexterm>
<listitem>
<para>The GNU Public License, or <quote>GPL</quote>. This license is
not quite as popular with us due to the amount of extra effort
@@ -636,6 +646,7 @@ THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
<sect3>
<title>Donating hardware</title>
+ <indexterm><primary>donations</primary></indexterm>
<para>Donations of hardware in any of the 3 following categories are
also gladly accepted by the FreeBSD Project:</para>
@@ -954,6 +965,7 @@ THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
<sect1 id="contrib-corealumni">
<title>Core Team Alumni</title>
+ <indexterm><primary>core team</primary></indexterm>
<para>The following people were members of the FreeBSD core team during
the periods indicated. We thank them for their past efforts in the
service of the FreeBSD project.</para>
@@ -1054,6 +1066,7 @@ THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
<sect1 id="contrib-develalumni">
<title>Development Team Alumni</title>
+ <indexterm><primary>development team</primary></indexterm>
<para>The following people were members of the FreeBSD development team
during the periods indicated. We thank them for their past efforts
in the service of the FreeBSD project.</para>