* Re: Contributing for the first time [not found] ` <4a08f8c6-d02e-40c4-b976-5437270ba5b2@email.android.com> @ 2011-11-07 13:17 ` Daniel Baluta 2011-11-07 16:11 ` Stephen Hemminger 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Daniel Baluta @ 2011-11-07 13:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Alexandru Juncu; +Cc: kernelnewbies, shemminger, Greg Freemyer, netdev On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote: > Alexandru Juncu <alex.juncu@rosedu.org> 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: Contributing for the first time 2011-11-07 13:17 ` Contributing for the first time Daniel Baluta @ 2011-11-07 16:11 ` Stephen Hemminger 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2011-11-07 16:11 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Daniel Baluta; +Cc: Alexandru Juncu, kernelnewbies, Greg Freemyer, netdev On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:17:38 +0200 Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@ixiacom.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote: > > Alexandru Juncu <alex.juncu@rosedu.org> 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 It might also be worth it to break some of the large manual pages into clearer sections. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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