Hello Karel On Mon, 11 May 2020 at 11:27, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 09:05:50PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 9:00 PM Helge Kreutzmann <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Hello Michael, > > > On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 08:53:31PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > > > Hello Helge ;-), > > Thanks for your report Helge. > > > > > I think no maintainer wants to deal with a 1000-line mail listing 100+ > > > > minor bugs. May I suggest making the maintainer's life a little easier > > > > by breaking things up into pieces. For example, one mail per manual > > > > page (which would be 43 mails by my count). But maybe Karel has > > > > another suggestion on how you could make his life easier. > > Well, that's simple, send patches ;-))) So, I've recently been through this process with Helge for 100+ man-pages bug reports.Here's my experience/summary for what its worth: * Because of info I have on the project website, Helge sent bug reports one per mail, so one day without warning, I got 138 mails :-). (My preference really is separate mails for each issue. But I told Helge I would have liked a little warning first :-).) * A large number of the reports just required simple one-line edits that could often be done in a minute. * It was clear that the effort required for Helge to make patches would be rather greater than me just doing the one-line edits * Making patches requires an added layer of work for Helge, since he/the translators are working with a mutated version of the source. (The flip side of this is that it is occasionally a little tricky to convert the text that Helge is sending you back to the corresponding page source.) > > Maybe hold off for a day or three before investing effort on this. > > Karel may have a better idea than mine re his preferred method of > > reporting. > > I have no another idea (maybe github issue(s), but it will be invisible > for many contributors). Have mercy! Please no... :-). Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
