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From: Markus Baeurle <emw4maba@gp.fht-esslingen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why no addusr?
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 21:38:38 +0100
Organization: FHT Esslingen, Deutschland
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Hello Carl,
In article <5atde9$832@abel.ic.sunysb.edu>
cshapiro@ic.sunsyb.edu (Carl S Shapiro) wrote:
> It should not take that long for about 3 -4 people to "port" the FreeBSD
> handbook into something that works for NetBSD. There are only, 25 or so
> chapters in the FreeBSD handbook. Most of the material would not differ
> that much in a NetBSD book.
>
> Care to lend a hand?
I also had this idea and I'm still interested in it. There are also other
people using the arm32 port who are interested in improving documentation.
Why not set up a NetBSD project (there are WWW pages to do that)?
It is also worth to consider if it would be good to have a NetBSD mailinglist
for documentation IMHO.
So I'm willing to help but there is the usual problem of time. I have a few
weeks left with a lot of time, then I will only have access to my computer on
weekends and I will finally move to the USA for a traineeship from March 17
until the end of August. I don't know yet if I will be internetted over there
(but I think so) and how much time I will have there to work on it.
Let's keep in mind that there should be somebody who can devote time to it
regularly for the forseeable future. Not only do you have to "port" the FreeBSD
handbook, it must also be maintained afterwards. It's still very much work in
progress anyway, there are still chapters missing in the FreeBSD handbook.
Markus