Alexandru Juncu <alex.juncu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hello! > >I have been a linux user for many years, and mostly on the networking >side. And I would like to start contributing somehow to the linux >community (in some other way than just promoting it). I guess that I >should start small with something like man pages. > >And there is something that really has been bugging me for some time. >I'm an iproute2 user and I teach linux courses and show people how to >use it. On most questions from my students about new commands, I >redirect them to the man pages and to the Examples section of that >page. iproute2 doesn't have such examples and I always wish it did. > >Do you think that if I submit a patch to the man pages, adding some >examples of how to use the ip command, will it get accepted? Because >this sounds like a simple thing and it's hard to believe that someone >else didn't try do to this before. What do you think? > > > >-- >Alexandru Juncu > >_______________________________________________ >Kernelnewbies mailing list >Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies I think it will be accepted, but few people like to work on the man pages. Since this is a userspace package you will need to figure out who the maintainer is and if there is a mailinglist they use to discuss/support the package. Then submit your patch there. Greg -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
