Hi Sam, > Date: 2026-08-03 15:05:36+0100 > From: Sam James > > Alejandro Colomar writes: > [...] > > He doesn't need to have read every word of the glibc manual, but this > > precise text he could have read it, because it was mentioned by Paul in > > this thread (different subthread) prior (19:28 UTC) to his message, and > > reviewed by me also prior (20:31 UTC) to his message (23:27 UTC). > > I often reply as I go rather than reading all other emails around that > time. I don't think you should assume he read those emails and > deliberately neglected their contents. Me too. But eventually I respond to those other emails, and rectify when that new information conflicts with something I said with incomplete information. So far, Collin didn't rectify. > > > > Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 14:28:33 -0500 > > From: Paul Eggert > > Message-ID: <8715af47-867c-417a-8ef5-7b4b7ceb2c31@cs.ucla.edu> > > > > Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 22:31:59 +0200 > > From: Alejandro Colomar > > Message-ID: > > > > Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:27:21 -0700 > > From: Collin Funk > > Message-ID: <875x1sp0h2.fsf@gmail.com> > > > > Also relevant is the fact that he accused me of "slowly" documenting > > "personal preferences". His wording implies that it wasn't there > > before. Maybe I misunderstood, though. I'd be happy to rectify if I > > was wrong. > > I think he meant in general? I don't interpret that. I guess he can defend himself and clarify. > > While he didn't need to know whether it was there before, it would be > > good to make some effort to learn whether that was the case, before > > making such a serious accusation. > > I took it to be that you (as you've said yourself) have a different > style from Michael and this does involve a more opinionated (you may not > call it that) approach. He's commenting on that being unfavourable to > him. I didn't think that was contentious, more that you see it as your > duty wrt education. I only see my style slightly different than Michael's, but not necessarily in the sense of involving a more opinionated approach. See the other messages where I've shown how Michael had done the exact same thing with strlcpy(3) a long time ago. On reconsideration, and after researching what Michael really did, I think I was wrong saying we have a different style at all. I believe we've had the same style. We just had different topics of expertise. Michael has had his own share of opinionated comments in manual pages. Have a lovely day! Alex --