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 FreeBSD Doceng Team Charter.

During the last quarter:

Glen Barber stepped down from doceng. doceng would like to thank gjb@ for his service.

Ceri Davies' commit bit was taken for safekeeping as per his request. doceng would like to thank ceri@ for his contributions.

mhorne@ to be mentored by carlavilla@ to obtain a documentation commit bit.

FreeBSD Handbook:

The Handbook was updated to show that FreeBSD 14.0 is the latest release.

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/

Q4 2023 Status

  • 17 team languages

  • 203 registered users

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>

A new FAQ was 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: February 15, 2024 by Lorenzo Salvadore