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I've checked all of the links, and found many changes.
For most books, I found links for the publisher and for a description of the book.
I'm just not sure how to submit it.

I basically copied the bibliography and used the comment system to show discrepancies or new links in a word doc (Microsoft Word 2007). Should I just upload that, or do something else?

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Hi,

Firstly, thanks for taking this task, the work you have done so far looks great.

The preferred method for submitting your work is by providing diffs against the source code for the documentation.

There are instructions at http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/GettingTheSource which cover getting the source, making and testing your changes, and generating a diff in a format that can be submitted.

Once you have downloaded the source, the source for the bibliography chapter is
/usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bibliography/chapter.sgml . Information relating to exactly how to write FreeBSD documentation is at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/fdp-primer/ should it not be clear how to (for example) create links in the documentation.

Hope that helps. Feel free to ask more questions if anything is unclear - this is the first year that we've participated in GCIN, so it's a bit of a learning curve for us too just what documentation we need to produce...

Thanks,

Gavin

Sorry, I hadn't realised that my formatting would be stripped out of that message. Hopefully this will be formatted better.

Firstly, thanks for taking this task, the work you have done so far looks great.

The preferred method for submitting your work is by providing diffs against the source code for the documentation.

There are instructions at http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/GettingTheSource which cover getting the source, making and testing your changes, and generating a diff in a format that can be submitted.

Once you have downloaded the source, the source for the bibliography chapter is
/usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bibliography/chapter.sgml . Information relating to exactly how to write FreeBSD documentation is at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/fdp-primer/should it not be clear how to (for example) create links in the documentation.

Hope that helps. Feel free to ask more questions if anything is unclear - this is the first year that we've participated in GCIN, so it's a bit of a learning curve for us too just what documentation we need to produce...

Thanks,

Gavin

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Hi,

I've re-opened the task, to enable you to submit the (great) work you have done as a diff against the source. Hopefully the instructions I've provided earlier will assist you in doing this. I've also extended the deadline by another day, as the initial instructions weren't really clear enough about how to submit the work etc.

Please do contact me if you have any other questions.

Gavin

Is there a way to get all of the files without using freeBSD? I tried to install it, but all I get is an error.

Hi,

I'm sorry to hear that you are having problems installing FreeBSD. We're hoping to have a pre-made VirtualBox image for students to use but that won't be ready for another couple of days, so instead I'd suggest you:

Download the source code for the page from:

Make all of your changes to the file. It should be relatively simple to follow the format of the file by looking at how other entries are written, and how the resulting web page appears.

Once you are happy you have done all of the work, submit the entire file. If you want me to review it before you submit it I'm happy to, please email it to me gavin@FreeBSD.org

As you are unable to install FreeBSD for some reason, there's no easy way that you can test your changes. As this is an exceptional circumstance, I'll accept your submission without testing and won't mark you down for this at all - but do try to be careful with the edits you make in the hope that your work will be mostly correct when submitted :)

Additionally, if you have time, I would be interested in knowing what issue you had with installing FreeBSD. Please feel free to finish this task first, but if you can then please drop me an email with a few details of the issues you saw (i.e. what was the error message, what hardware are you trying to install onto or what VM software are you using, etc).

Thanks!

Gavin

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Hi,

I've just reviewed your work, and it looks excellent. You've paid great attention to detail, and have managed to produce work which is of a high standard. This work is excellent, thanks! I shall mark this task as closed.

Thanks again,

Gavin

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