Hi! On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:24:27AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 08:13:30AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > >> The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces: > >> > >> man-pages-3.23.tar.gz - man pages for Linux > > > > Seeing how many patches seem to be left on the floor, do you need some > > help with the maintenance? I don't really have that much time myself, > > but maybe just making the process a bit more open and liberal could > > help... (If it's wrong, sooner or later someone will send in a patch to > > fix it. ;-) > > Well, I could do with some good help right now, but there are few volunteers. Ok, how can we help? > My observation about being liberal in accepting patches is that enough > bad patches come in that this would be a mistake. And I've in the past > found some mistakes that lived in man pages for years. Then again, if noone noticed the mistake, perhaps the mistake is not really important. :-) I think "best is the enemy of good" is perhaps the problem here. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis A lot of people have my books on their bookshelves. That's the problem, they need to read them. -- Don Knuth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
