Plan 9 Documentation Task Force

The Plan 9 Documentation Task Force intends to fix, update and extend the various sets of Plan 9 documentation.

This is a great way to help improve the system while learning about its darkest corners, join us and have fun ;)

Note: The Task Force is inactive, see the /sys/doc/ archive and the manual page archive for further efforts.

CURRENT TASKS

• Merge man pages updates from p9p
• Man pages review
• Wiki pages review
• Fix the HTML and PS versions of the papers (mostly done, except '$' seriously mangled in most papers (mk, rc, ..))
• Have 9fans and inferno-list archived in: marc.theaimsgroup.com (9fans done) www.gmane.org (9fans done but old archives missing, Inferno done) http://www.mail-archive.com (9fans submitted, old archives missing)
• Polish and update the FAQ
• Write missing man pages

FUTURE TASKS

• Fix man page indexes, and write scripts to check/update them in the future.

COMPLETED TASKS

• Build a wiki index
• Build/maintain a sources contrib index
• Have Plan 9 added to http://fxr.watson.org/

TODO WIKI PAGES

• Security tips and pitfalls
• 9P
• Projects (Complement to TODO and Future directions)
• Papers (replacing the current static papers page, DONE but needs more work)
• Ports (dito)
• Recommended readings (Users/Developers)
• News (done) - Superceeded by NineTimes.
• Drawterm (done)

MEMBERS

• nym
• uriel
• Oksel
• Vester
• jt_