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Re: Interest in Helping with GNU C Library Manual


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 09:05:31PM -0700, ricaljasan wrote:
> For now, I happen to be reading only this section, and thought I might
> ask if you would like help correcting basic problems with it. I intend
> upon reading the manual at greater length in the future, so it seems
> like an opportune time to ask if you would also like some proofing done.
> I have basic programming knowledge so I should be able to make sense of
> most of the manual (how else would I even know I wanted to read it?)
> and, since I will be reading it for the first time, will be much more
> inclined to spend extra time on it.
> 
> I have been keeping an eye out for an opportunity to work on something
> with the open-source community but do not have experience in
> collaborating on large projects. I assume the manual is kept in a branch
> of a development tree somewhere I can git a clone from and push edits
> back to but you will have to help me with the details of the process
> should we wind up working together.
> 
> This turned out to be much more of a cover letter than I ever would have
> imagined, so thank you for taking the time to read it and let me know if
> I can be of any help.

Thank you for offering to help!  There's a contribution checklist[1]
you can look at, which should be a good guide to get started with
posting patches for changes.  The biggest TODO would probably be to
get a copyright assignment signed with the Free Software Foundation to
assign copyright of your work to them, although I am not sure if it is
required for documentation changes; I suspect it is.  I had written up
a call for contributors last year[2], which has information to get you
started on the technical front.

Siddhesh

[1] https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Contribution%20checklist
[2] http://siddhesh.in/journal/2013/02/21/the-glibc-manual-needs-volunteers/

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