Re: I want to help in man pages
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:06:24PM -0300, flavetz wrote:
> Hi everybody, I want to introduce myself
>
> I'm from Brazil and currently running Debian AMD64 unofficial port on my private Athlon 64 machine.
> I started using Debian after a phew testings in another distributions and find Debian is the true GNU spirit and I wanted to contribute in some ways:
> - moving some of the companies I work to from closed systems to Debian, which is currently going very well in the first I tryied;
> - asking companies to contribute $$ to Debian since they don't need to pay lots of money to "you know who" anymoré;
> - asking people in the www list if they need help to translate web pages to portuguese-brazillian.
Great!
> After that I saw that there is a lot man pages needing to be made in
> english and/or translated to brazillian portuguese, so, I want to
> know how or who I have to ask to and start helping in this process,
> since I have some experience in writing software documentation and
> translation in my professional recent past. So why not help
> opensource to be better? Everything I learned about linux, gnu and
> Debian was reading documents, I want to help this effort for the
> other users.
There should be very little overhead involved here. The qa
"needs-manpages" list is pretty big .. I would recommend writing
manpages for software you use; it is too easy to write poor
documentation for other stuff.
Then, just file a bug (wishlist severity?) against the package, to the
effect of "Binary/library_function fails to include manpage", with
Tags: patch. I expect that most maintainers would be grateful for the
contribution.
--
Clear skies,
Justin
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