Hi Branden, On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 12:08:51PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2025-02-11T17:13:21+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > If there's consensus in the kernel of moving to man9 docs, I'd be > > happy to help with that. I fear that some maintainers may fear man(7) > > pages. If you need me to give any talks to explain how to write > > man(7) source code, and show that it's easier than it looks like, I > > could do that (Günther already suggested me to do so :). Maybe I > > should give a talk at Plumbers. > > Consider me a resource for this purpose as well. I gave a talk on this > very subject at DebConf 5 (not a typo, that was 2005),[1] and have some > familiarity with the man(7) macro package, its history in various > Unices, its groff implementation, and the underlying language of the > formatter, troff/nroff, which were developed at the Bell Labs Computing > Science Research Center contemporaneously with, and by the same group > as, the Unix kernel. Yup! Maybe we can prepare a talk together? I mean two speakers. You certainly know things I don't, and I probably have other points of view that are interesting. I think we could meet IRL eventually to prepare something like this. I'll probably be in the US a couple of times in 2025 (one C Committee meeting, and OSS.us/LSS.us). If you're interested, please send me an email. And if any kernel people reading this is interested in anything specific from us man(7) people, please let us know! Have a lovely day! Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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