[openssl-dev] [openssl-announce] OpenSSL version 1.0.2 released

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Fri 2015-01-23 16:04:15 -0500, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
>  |On Fri 2015-01-23 06:19:14 -0500, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
>
>  |> brings.  (Myself even starves for documentation [coverage]
>  |> improvements.)
>  |
>  |fwiw, OpenSSL documentation is pretty easy to read and to edit.  If you
>  |notice that things are missing, you can edit the docs, and submit
>  |patches either on this mailing list, on the rt bugtracker at
>  |https://rt.openssl.org/, or as a pull request via github:
>  |
>  | https://github.com/openssl/openssl
>
> And fwiw :) i don't have a github account -- i had one but wanted
> to pay (also because they paid a developer for git(1)
> development), yet they didn't accept cash.  And i *completely*
> decline using credit cards.

Sure, you don't need a github account at all, and no credit cards are
required :)

I'm assuming you've got the git client installed on your computer
("apt-get install git" or "yum install git" or if you're on some
platform without a package management system get it from
http://git-scm.com/).

Then, to get a copy of the development tree and see what documentation
files are present, you'd do:

  git clone https://github.com/openssl/openssl
  cd openssl/doc
  ls crypto/ ssl/

edit the documentation you want to fix, generate a patch using "git
diff" and send it to this list attached to an explanatory e-mail.

Regards,

      --dkg