Hello John, On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 22:15, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 5/14/20 10:09 PM, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > >> On 5/14/20 8:51 PM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > >>> I'm now reporting the errors for your project. If future reports should > >>> use another channel, please let me know. > >> > >> I think you should send your changes as patches, preferably with a git pull > >> request as the current form of submitting these changes requires a lot of > >> manual editing due to the large number of changes involved. > > > > Well, yes, but see > > https://lore.kernel.org/util-linux/CAKgNAkgqKs=Q4qvPHirHa6KjW3qOqyyNG7sCxHX2RfWiOBqRbg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > Doesn't convince, me really. I don't think it's too much to ask for to > read the documentation of git and then create a set of patches. Yes, but probably the work for Helge to do that is a factor of *several* times the work of someone with commit access doing the manual edits. > I wouldn't accept such mass mails for my own projects, it's just way too > much work to import all these changes manually. I agree. It's a pain. > And I also haven't seen > any other project do that in the past 20 years, so I'm not sure how successful > this strategy is. I'm not sure how successful it will be either. But, one project just did what you haven't seen in the past 20 years, just last month :-). Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
