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Marc Fonvieille
a3a6aa326d 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.
2002-08-03 18:59:36 +00:00
Chern Lee
a6a041f2af Fix example of using diff, mention when to use unified vs. context
formats.

Submitted by:	jhb
2002-07-31 09:28:17 +00:00
Chern Lee
a2b64e362e We prefer unified diffs.
Change 'context diff' -> 'unified diff'

PR:		docs/38728
Submitted by:	Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com>
2002-07-29 11:39:04 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
d4b003e30a FreeBSD documentation project prefers to use manual pages over man pages,
hence some documents should reflect this.

Tossed around on: -doc -developers
2002-07-11 19:08:31 +00:00
Michael Lucas
64b72dc1f7 Add information about contributing to the C99/Posix compliance project.
Suggested by: wollman
2002-05-08 18:29:01 +00:00
Michael Lucas
1ead757eb4 Whitespace diff. No content changes.
This includes a re-justification of the whole document, as many lines
were far too long, not just the ones I touched in the last commit.
2002-05-07 12:51:37 +00:00
Michael Lucas
db46fb6953 Reorganization and partial rewrite of this article.
Suggestions for to-do activities are now broken out into "coder" and
"non-coder" tasks.

Remove implications that the Core team makes all TODO lists.
2002-05-07 12:34:27 +00:00
Michael Lucas
5774e384cf Whitespace cleanup from previous commit.
No content changes.
2002-05-06 12:26:46 +00:00
Michael Lucas
f9aae66a41 Update translations entry to reflect existence of translations FAQ,
and general changes in the translation process since this document was
written way back when.
2002-05-06 12:25:19 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
67a1702cec Remove almost all instances of "try and <verb>" from the docs.
There is one remaining place in the fdp-primer, but that needs
a bit more work.

Inspired by:	docs/36462 (Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net>)
Reviewed by:	ceri, trhodes
2002-04-07 23:52:37 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
6ddd2cc0dc Fix &entities; that lacked an ending ';' character,
as reported by the following:

	% cd doc/en_US.ISO8859-1
	% find . -type f -name '*.sgml' |\
	  xargs grep '&[^[:space:];&][^[:space:];]*$' | grep -v '&$'
	% find . -type f -name '*.sgml' |\
	  xargs grep '&[^[:space:];&][^[:space:];]*[[:space:]<]' |\
	  grep -v '&[[: space:]]' | grep -v '[[:space:]]&&[[:space:]]'
2002-03-27 01:16:55 +00:00
Murray Stokely
c3bb7acba0 Note that the FreeBSD Foundation can now accept donations through the
web with PayPal.
2002-03-18 05:47:15 +00:00
Peter Pentchev
6e99166b51 Whitespace-only fixups from the e-mail to SGML entities conversion. 2002-03-15 08:28:14 +00:00
Peter Pentchev
81f0937cee Convert names, descriptions and e-mail addresses of FreeBSD committers
and mailing lists to SGML entities.

Reviewed by:	keramida
Approved by:	keramida, silence on -doc
2002-03-15 08:10:48 +00:00
Michael Lucas
ee920c1278 Whitespace cleanup from previous commit.
No content changes.
2002-03-11 14:46:50 +00:00
Michael Lucas
025392780c Rewrite first three paragraphs of this article to eliminate run-on
sentences, poor grammar, excess verbiage, etc., etc.
2002-03-11 14:44:58 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
9f02cb487b Fix logical bug. "Ongoign tasks" is the first subsection about tasks.
Substitute "previous sections" -> "next sections".
2002-02-18 03:06:39 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
298d29102b Mention the problem report article. 2001-11-23 18:31:04 +00:00
Murray Stokely
720d4d69c8 * s/freebsd.org/FreeBSD.org/
* Correct some broken links
* Use relative links for freebsd.org documents

PR:		docs/31447
Submitted by:	Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
Found by:	linbot
2001-10-23 21:31:20 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
b9de1f4470 Replace the last &quot; entities of this articles with <quote> elements.
Approved by:	nik
2001-10-15 13:28:21 +00:00
Murray Stokely
d66d104587 Add <filename> and <function> tags as appropriate. 2001-10-08 06:26:16 +00:00
Murray Stokely
ee836b0855 Add "Contributing to FreeBSD" article. This has been repo-copied from
the FreeBSD Handbook contrib/chapter.sgml.
2001-10-08 06:18:45 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
5629b58727 Mention that [PATCH] in the synopsis of a PR could indicate that the
PR includes a patch suitable for committing.  I don't think this is
the best place to put something like this, but it's better than
nothing.

Submitted by:	pavalos@theshell.com
2001-08-11 20:15:56 +00:00
Chern Lee
205cf1b49a Standardize capitalization of titles:
* First and last word uppercase
* Prepositions, articles, and short conjunctions lowercase
* The word 'to' lowercase
* Preserved capitalization for program/command names

Reviewed by:	murray
2001-08-10 22:58:17 +00:00
Chern Lee
2b61014302 Properly markup contributions in <chapterinfo>/<sect1info>/<sect2info> tags
according to recent changes for entire Handbook.

Reviewed by:	murray
2001-08-09 23:42:35 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
83ea11e809 Fill paragraph after previous commit. No content changes. 2001-08-08 17:29:39 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
4a030b5f34 GPL is the General Public License, not the GNU Public License.
PR:		29502
Submitted by:	Gary W. Swearingen <swear@aa.net>
2001-08-08 17:28:42 +00:00
Chern Lee
8fbe832483 Spelling Fixes:
* sybolic -> symbolic
* donatations -> donations
* foundatation -> foundation
* remaining e-mail -> email

Reviewed by:	murray
2001-08-06 22:59:24 +00:00
John Polstra
5cec0e3ada Add information about the FreeBSD Foundation. 2001-08-05 20:56:34 +00:00
Jim Mock
f1d9605e83 Change the remaining instances of e-mail to email. 2001-08-04 20:06:22 +00:00
Murray Stokely
43796b8868 Update references to the staff section of the Handbook to point to the
"Contributors List" article.

Remove the list of contributors from the "Contributing to FreeBSD"
chapter.

Remove the "High Priority Tasks" and "Medium Priority Tasks" from the
"Contributing to FreeBSD" chapter since this destined to always be
hopelessly out of date.  Keep the information about what we always
need.
2001-08-02 00:36:18 +00:00
Murray Stokely
2fdac55c46 * Combine singular/plural index terms.
* Add a few section id's so that the printed index can find the page
  number.

Submitted by:	Valentino Vaschetto <valentino.vaschetto@windriver.com>
2001-07-30 17:18:54 +00:00
Chern Lee
aa873b5501 Remove smileys/emoticons as discussed in -doc to give the handbook a more
formal look.

Reviewed by:	murray
2001-07-23 22:51:33 +00:00
Mark Pulford
56d8cd3eb5 Add Jason DiCioccio for contributing the odsclient port 2001-07-22 10:58:09 +00:00
Mark Pulford
97827e3906 Add Dmitry for a bugfix to net/rinetd 2001-07-19 12:58:52 +00:00
Mark Pulford
2b2e65bb37 Add Adam Kranzel for his update to games/xrisk 2001-07-19 06:30:40 +00:00
Chern Lee
4df284c246 Made <indexterm>'s more specific by adding <filename>, <command>,
and <application> entities.

Submitted by:	Valentino Vaschetto <valentino.vaschetto@windriver.com>
Reviewed by:	murray
2001-07-19 01:11:52 +00:00
Mike Barcroft
68760b5c86 Add myself to staff, remove from additional contributers.
Approved by: des
2001-07-17 01:09:40 +00:00
Anton Berezin
060fb0d1c5 Update Flemming Jacobsen's E-mail address. 2001-07-15 19:57:41 +00:00
Anton Berezin
9454f472b3 Add John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net> to the additional
contributors section for his update to mail/libesmtp port.
2001-07-14 21:48:52 +00:00
Chern Lee
f05db19844 Standardize: Mhz -> MHz
The MHz notation for megahertz is used throughout the handbook, as well as
everywhere else.

Approved by:	murray
2001-07-14 02:06:29 +00:00
Chern Lee
0cd5b44fec 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
2001-07-14 00:06:54 +00:00
Chern Lee
07ea524120 Added Chris Shumway to contributers section and added author entity 2001-07-13 21:22:49 +00:00
Chern Lee
d43549e1de Add myself to staff, remove from additional contributers. 2001-07-13 19:14:48 +00:00
Johann Visagie
c58aba7903 Update Tony Maher's email addres to keep it in sync with his ports (and with
reality).
2001-07-11 08:19:33 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
3f691d0dd2 Add Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca> as a contributor for his recent
contribution of about a dozen kernel manpages.  Hopefully more to
come.
2001-07-10 04:48:07 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
6ef8ab4907 Correct a typo.
PR:		28722
Submitted by:	Joseph Mallett <jmallett@xMach.org>
2001-07-06 12:39:13 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
a9895c46e3 Correct more drunkenness from rev. 1.437. I don't know what I was on... 2001-07-03 03:20:44 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
a34a98930e Correct drunkenness from rev. 1.437. 2001-07-03 01:19:19 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
3735e32d65 Insert whitespace between a name and e-mail address. 2001-07-03 01:16:21 +00:00