FreeBSD The Power to Serve

Documentation Engineering Team

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

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.

Document changes

Handbook

  • The Filesystems chapter has been reworked.

  • The information about official mirrors have been updated.

  • Multiple examples have been updated including vnet, jails, git, etc.

Porter’s Handbook

The following USES were documented:

  • ansible

  • angr

  • apache

  • azurepy

  • electronfix

  • elixir

  • emacs

  • fpc

  • jpeg

  • kodi

  • lazarus

  • mlt

  • mpi

  • ocaml

  • trigger

  • waf

New variables were documented for USES=samba:

  • SAMBA_TALLOC_PORT,

  • SAMBA_TDB_PORT

  • SAMBA_TEVENT_PORT

Website

  • Manual pages for NetBSD 10.1 have been added.

  • Manual pages for Rocky Linux 8.10, 9.4 and 9.5 have been added.

  • Manual pages for FreeBSD 13.5 have been added.

  • Pages for OpenSolaris 2010.03 have been added.

FreeBSD Translations on Weblate

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

Q3 2024 Status

  • 18 team languages

  • 246 registered users

7 new translators joined Weblate:

  • Squirrel-hue (ES, ES_CL)

  • Javier Faig (ES)

  • Сергей (RU)

  • Renan Birck Pinheiro (PT)

  • Davi Rodrigues (PT)

  • laiis akibo

  • Raoul Taddei (FR_FR)

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%)

  • Greek (el) (progress: 1%)

  • Indonesian (id) (progress: 1%)

  • Italian (it) (progress: 4%)

  • Korean (ko) (progress: 30%)

  • Norwegian (nb-no) (progress: 1%)

  • Persian (fa-ir) (progress: 2%)

  • Polish (progress: 2%)

  • Portuguese (progress: 0%)

  • Portuguese (pt-br) (progress: 23%)

  • Spanish (es) (progress: 36%)

  • 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.

Packages maintained by DocEng

During this quarter the following work was done in packages maintained by doceng@:

Open issues

There are no open PRs assigned to doceng@.

During this quarter the following PR was closed:

  • 276923 www/gohugo link error under poudriere

Last modified on: April 8, 2025 by Fernando Apesteguia