FreeBSD The Power to Serve

Documentation Engineering Team

Link: FreeBSD Documentation Project URL: https://www.freebsd.org/docproj/
Link: FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors URL: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/fdp-primer/
Link: Documentation Engineering Team URL: https://www.freebsd.org/administration/#t-doceng

Contact: FreeBSD Doceng Team <doceng@FreeBSD.org>

The doceng@ team is a body to handle some of the meta-project issues associated with the FreeBSD Documentation Project; for more information, see the FreeBSD Doceng Team Charter.

During this quarter:

  • The search functionality of the documentation portal was moved from DuckDuckGo to our own search engine; for more information, see this commit

  • grahamperrin@'s doc commit bit was taken for safekeeping as per his request

  • pluknet@'s doc commit bit was taken for safekeeping as per his request.

Porter’s Handbook

New USES knobs have been added to the Handbook:

FreeBSD Translations on Weblate

Link: Translate FreeBSD on Weblate URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Doc/Translation/Weblate
Link: FreeBSD Weblate Instance URL: https://translate-dev.freebsd.org/

Q3 2023 Status

  • 17 team languages

  • 189 registered users

Four new translators joined Weblate:

  • minso in Korean (ko) and French (fr_FR)

  • strgalt-t in German (de_DE)

  • bsdmeg in German (de_DE)

  • mvsf in Portuguese (pt_BR)

Languages

  • Chinese (Simplified) (zh-cn) (progress: 7%)

  • Chinese (Traditional) (zh-tw) (progress: 3%)

  • Dutch (nl) (progress: 1%)

  • French (fr) (progress: 1%)

  • German (de) (progress: 1%)

  • Indonesian (id) (progress: 1%)

  • Italian (it) (progress: 5%)

  • Korean (ko) (progress: 33%)

  • Norwegian (nb-no) (progress: 1%)

  • Persian (fa-ir) (progress: 2%)

  • Polish (progress: 1%)

  • Portuguese (progress: 0%)

  • Portuguese (pt-br) (progress: 22%)

  • Spanish (es) (progress: 35%)

  • Turkish (tr) (progress: 2%)

We want to thank everyone that contributed, translating or reviewing documents.

And please, help promote this effort on your local user group, we always need more volunteers.

FreeBSD Handbook Working Group

Contact: Sergio Carlavilla <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org>

FAQ Working Group

Contact: Sergio Carlavilla <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org>

The idea is to write a new FAQ. Will be released alongside FreeBSD 14.0.

FreeBSD Website Revamp — WebApps Working Group

Contact: Sergio Carlavilla <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org>

Working group in charge of creating the new FreeBSD Documentation Portal and redesigning the FreeBSD main website and its components. FreeBSD developers can follow and join the working group on the FreeBSD Slack channel #wg-www21. The work will be divided into three phases:

  1. Redesign of the Manual Pages on web

    Scripts to generate the HTML pages using mandoc. (Complete, Approved by Doceng, Deploy Date Not Decided Yet) Public instance on https://man-dev.FreeBSD.org

  2. Redesign of the FreeBSD main website

    New design, responsive and dark theme. (Almost Complete, Presented at EuroBSDCon)

  3. Redesign of the Ports page on web

    Ports scripts to create an applications portal. (Work in progress)

Last modified on: October 5, 2023 by Maxim Konovalov