On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 08:57:48AM -0400, Teodorski, Chris wrote: > I'm not a hacker so unless the Debian community is interested in > introducing very poorly written code into Debian then I'm not of any use > there. I am fairly technically literate (my day job is as a SysAdmin) > and my degree is in English Lit, so it seems that I am a perfect fit for > the documentation project. So, I'm asking if I can help out and how? There's actually a lot of things you can do to help the documentation project. Basicly it all boils down to: 1.- Improve existing documentation 2.- Write new documentation The first thing is rather easy, pick your document of choice from the list of available and finished documents, go through it and send patches improving either wording (a lot of documentation has been written by non-native english speaking people like myself) or content. The second one is more cumbersome, you actually have to determine which document you would find of value and it's not currently available (or is stalled and needs to be worked on). That's actually what Osamu did when he started the "Debian Quick Reference" guide or what I did when I started working on the "Debian Security Manual" basing my work in Alexander's HOWTO. The documentation project is currently without a "project manager" of sorts, so there's also a lot of work to be done in writting a proper policy [1] and, even, small HOWTOs on how people can contribute new documentation (or patches) to the project :-) Regards Javier [1] See http://www.debian.org/doc/docpolicy and http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ddp-policy/ddp-policy.en.html
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