On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > 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. According to [1] maintainer for iproute2 is Stephen Hemminger (CC'ed) and I think patches should be sent to netdev mailing list ([2]). thanks, Daniel. [1] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/iproute2 [2] http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#netdev _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
