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
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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. Greg -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.