Contributing for the first time

[Greg Freemyer]

Alexandru Juncu <alex.juncu at 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?
>
>
>
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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 
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