Thanks to you both for the info. And glad to hear the path name got
fixed for the xdm config files. I primarily use FreeBSD on the desktop,
so I'll probably submit more corrections and changes to the Xorg section
once I get finished reading the stuff about getting started. There are
parts of it that are confusing and for the most part, don't seem to be
necessary anymore, at least not in most cases. Such as a lot of the font
configuration stuff.
On 07/07/18 13:17, Eitan Adler wrote:
On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 at 17:09, Sid <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm pretty new to the community, but I'm interested in helping out in
various ways. I don't know that there's a lot I can contribute yet
(being so new), but I have noticed there are places in the documentation
that are out of date and I could fix. For example, section 5.6.1 lists
the Xorg xdm config files as being in /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm which it
seems they are not in newer versions of FreeBSD. I found them in
/usr/local/etc/X11/xdm. So at least when it comes to noticing errors
like that, and fixing them, I think I can contribute.
I know the basics of Docbook and version control, so if there is a
preferred way to submit corrections using diff files or something, I
should be able to pick up on that fairly quickly.
Anyway, I'd love to help out, and just looking for some guidance on how
to get started.
Sid gave you the correct links to get started. I will also echo that
the documentation committers are understaffed. That said, I wouldn't
take it the way Sid has: it does take some chasing of people to get
commits it, but it means that even small-time contributions can have a
big impact.
Also, while my development computer is dead, and thus I can't commit
to much right now, I take mentoring new people to be much more
important than my own commits: if you submit patches I'll try to
review and commit them ASAP.
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