How can I help make the docs better? (When I'm too green to know how?)

Fredrik Viklund fredrikv at biochem.kth.se
Fri May 17 07:15:02 GMT 2002


At 15:46 2002-05-16 +0200, Kai Blin wrote:
>* Mike Davis <mike2000jan at hotmail.com> [14/05/02, 23:01:15]:
> > On the other hand, it is consuming a lot
> > of my time just to learn about Samba and how to configure Linux so I
> > don't have time (yet) to learn about CVS, 'diff', etc.  (I'm not even
> > sure that these are the preferred methods for notifying someone of a
> > correction)
>
>This is only too true. *sic* I've not been around for a while, but IIRC
>not everybody gets developers access to the cvs repository. I recall
>that I learned how to use diff just to send some corrections for typos
>on the web page, too. ;)

One way could be to have a web interface to diff the docs for easy submission
of typos and similar.

I could request any doc file, get it in a text box in a form, make my changes
(or copy/paste them), press the Diff button and *ta da* get the diff back 
to submit.

?

         /Fredrik





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