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   <h1>FreeBSD Handbook 3rd Edition</h1>

   <p>The 3rd Edition FreeBSD Handbook will be published in two
     volumes, each over 400 pages.  Volume I (User Guide) will cover
     the basics, while Volume II (Administrator's Guide) will cover
     system administration and more advanced topics.</p>

   <p>If you would like to get involved with the production of this
     edition, please send email to the -doc mailing list.  Thanks!</p>

<table class="tblbasic">
<tr><th>Task</th><th>Responsible</th><th>Last updated</th><th>Status</th></tr>
<tr>
  <td>Create new callout images for the numbers 1 - 25 as the default images with the DocBook stylesheets only go from 1-9 and then fall back on text numbers.  This looks bad when we have more than 9 callouts in the text, such as the Security Advisories section of the Security chapter.  Update: Numbers up to 15 added from DocBook CVS.</td>
  <td>&a.murray;</td>
  <td>July 12, 2004</td>
  <td>&done;</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Rewrite firewall section to cover pf, ipf and ipfw.</td>
  <td>&a.trhodes;</td>
  <td>July 22, 2004</td>
  <td>&inprogress;</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Write a proper synopsis for the Vinum chapter.</td>
  <td>&a.ceri;, via a patch from Kevin Kinsey</td>
  <td>July 29, 2004</td>
  <td>&done;</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Advanced Network Chapter is almost 100 pages and should be split up.  Update: new Network Servers chapter split off separately.</td>
  <td>&a.murray;</td>
  <td>July 13, 2004</td>
  <td>&done;</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Review recently added HTTP Server section.</td>
  <td>--</td>
  <td>July 20, 2004</td>
  <td>&notstarted;</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Review recently added FTP Server section.</td>
  <td>--</td>
  <td>July 20, 2004</td>
  <td>&notstarted;</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Add information about setting up a secure web server to the
    Apache section.  Generating the certificate, getting the
    certificate signed, etc..</td>
  <td>&a.murray;</td>
  <td>July 20, 2004</td>
  <td>&notstarted;</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Add a section about running a Windows file server with Samba to Network Servers chapter.</td>
  <td>--</td>
  <td>July 20, 2004</td>
  <td>&notstarted;</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Update the DHCP section of the Network Servers chapter to describe omshell and recent DHCP 3.X features now in the base system.  UPDATE: omshell is pretty technical and I don't think we really need to get into it in the Handbook?  Thoughts?</td>
  <td> --</td>
  <td>July 13, 2004</td>
  <td>&inprogress;</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Information about running an FTP server should be added to the Network Servers chapter.</td>
  <td> &a.murray; </td>
  <td>July 21, 2004</td>
  <td>&done;</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Add a type attribute to localhost URLs so that these can be
  omitted from the printed output.</td>
  <td>&a.murray;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&done;</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Add &lt;colspecs&gt; to tables as necessary to enhance the print output.</td>
  <td>&a.murray;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&inprogress;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Remove all ASCII artwork</td>
  <td>&a.murray;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&done;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Update chapter on using modern versions of GNOME</td>
  <td>&a.marcus;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&done;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Fix cross-referencing tags to look better in the print
  output.</td>
  <td>&a.murray;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&inprogress;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Standardize spelling of technical terms</td>
  <td>&a.trhodes;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&inprogress;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Make sure all filenames, commands, applications, hostnames, etc
  are marked up properly</td>
  <td>&a.blackend;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&inprogress;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Update appendix of contributing authors.</td>
  <td>&a.chern;</td>
  <td>July 20, 2004</td>
  <td>&inprogress;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Update PPP/SLIP chapter</td>
  <td>&a.trhodes;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&done;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Clean up the IPSec section</td>
  <td>&a.hmp;, &a.chern;</td>
  <td>October 26, 2003</td>
  <td>&done;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Add simple illustrations at the beginning of each Part.</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&notstarted;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Add admonition graphics for Note, Caution, Warning, Tip.</td>
  <td>&a.hrs;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&inprogress;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Design the cover.</td>
  <td>Ben Hansen</td>
  <td>July 20, 2004</td>
  <td>&done;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Update content in introduction chapter for post 5.0 world.</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&notstarted;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Make front matter look better</td>
  <td>&a.murray;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&done;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><strong>Review the book for grammatical errors.</strong></td>
  <td>Everyone!</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&inprogress;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Implement automated spellchecker for entire Handbook.  Chern
  wrote some Tcl scripts and posted them to doc@ around the time of
  the second edition work.  This could be a starting point.</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&notstarted;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Make sure all section titles are capitalized properly</td>
  <td>&a.ceri;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&done;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Remove gratuitous Q/A sections in favor of more formal
  text. (see the end of the ports/packages chapter)</td>
  <td>&a.trhodes;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&inprogress;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Add more information about ACPI.</td>
  <td>&a.trhodes; and &a.njl;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&done;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Add information about Kerberos5 and adjust Kerberos4 information
  accordingly.</td>
  <td>&a.trhodes;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&done;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Update Preface.</td>
  <td>&a.murray;</td>
  <td>July 20, 2004</td>
  <td>&inprogress;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Update bibliography with newer editions, etc.</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&notstarted;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Add more indexterms throughout the book.  Reorganize some
  existing indexterms.  See the "make indexcheck" functionality for
  help finding areas of the book where indexterms are sparse.</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&notstarted;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Write an introduction for the Serial Communications chapter
  (note the big "XXX - Write me!" comment).  The current Synopsis can
  probably be adapted for this.</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
  <td>May 19, 2003</td>
  <td>&notstarted;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>The Mini-Cartridge section in the disks chapter still needs to
  be written.  Update: section removed.</td>
  <td>&a.murray;</td>
  <td>July 20, 2004</td>
  <td>&done;</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td>Add information about network configuration to the install chapter.</td>
  <td>&a.trhodes;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&done;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Add some documentation on cron(8).</td>
  <td>&a.trhodes;</td>
  <td>May 18, 2003</td>
  <td>&done;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Fill undefined glossary terms.</td>
  <td>Everyone!</td>
  <td>August 16, 2004</td>
  <td>&notstarted;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Send everything to the printer.</td>
  <td>&a.murray;</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
  <td>&notstarted;</td>
</tr>
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