Hi Gueven, On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Gueven Bay <gueven.bay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to contribute to the man-pages project but I have some questions. > > 1) If I use the "Advanced Search" of the bugzilla and choose under > Product "Documentation" > and und er Component "man-pages" then I get only three bugs - #10356 , > #12919 and > #12726 - . If you'd like to help (and that would be much appreciated!), then the following page gives many pointers: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/contributing.html In particular, you might try grepping the man pages source for the string FIXME. Cheers, Michael > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=Documentation&component=man-pages&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&cf_kernel_version_type=allwordssubstr&cf_kernel_version=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= > > I don't think that these three bugs is the complete list. > Can you tell me how I can list the current bug list for the man pages, please? > > > 2) I would like to contribute man pages for drivers like the > (Free|Net|Open)BSD man pages have. > Here > > http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/dir_section_4.html > > are no driver man pages like for example these listed : > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=aha&sektion=4&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE > (Adaptec SCSI host adapter driver) > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=aue&sektion=4&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE > (ADMtek AN986 Pegasus USB Ethernet driver) > > Do you not have such driver man pages because of missing contributers > who write these > or > is there some "technical" reason that such man pages are or maybe > cannot be written? > > > 3) On which version of the kernel/glibc do you write the man pages? > The current stable version? Or > the development trunk (head) of the kernel and glibc? > > > > regards > Gueven > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
