On 02/19/2015 03:30 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hi Carlos, > > I wonder if I might be able to engage you as a backup mentor for a > GSoC project that I am proposing here: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/gsoc_2015.html > > The basic idea is to produce a parser for glibc code to tell answer > the questions: what feature test macros (FTMs) can be defined to > expose the definition of function foo(). The purpose is then to use > that information to update FTM information contained in the man pages. > However, it would of course also be useful information for the glibc > manual, should the project wish to start documenting such things. (I > believe this information is little documented in the manual at the > moment.) > > What do you think of the idea? And would you be willing to be a backup > mentor? (I expect little effort to be involved on your part, but GSoc > requires two mentors for a proposal.) > > BTW, if any other glibc maintainer would be willing to act as a backup > mentor, I'd be happy hear from you. I would be happy to be a backup mentor. The idea sounds interesting. I don't know that all combinations of FTMs are designed to be allowed, and I expect that the result will always need some human expert cleanup. Therefore it would be good to have glibc developer review of the results. I'm not suggesting I should be that reviewer, but the community should review to make sure it's correct. Cheers, Carlos. -- 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
