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From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To: coreutils@gnu.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Move GNU manual pages to the Linux man-pages project
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 08:35:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250930133548.6e33lxc6ptync2hd@illithid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e369c200-a7cd-4b92-b700-d9d48d347ce8@landley.net>

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At 2025-09-30T08:23:10-0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> Either people updated the docs or they didn't. Having an active
> well-known place to go look and complain at is useful. Requiring
> somebody to read the source code and provide a copyright assignment to
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> tweak documentation...  well you've tried that since 1983, how did it
> go?

Wrong since (at least) 2013 and wrong today.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnustandards-commit/2013-10/msg00000.html

> There may be some selection bias in the people who constantly read and
> edit this source code finding this source code to be the best place to
> put the docs. Learn to cook at the oven factory.

Or play ill-informed games in a toy box.

Regards,
Branden

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  reply	other threads:[~2025-09-30 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-20 16:08 Move GNU manual pages to the Linux man-pages project Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-20 16:27 ` Sam James
2025-09-20 16:50   ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-20 17:00   ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-20 16:34 ` Pádraig Brady
2025-09-20 16:55   ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-20 17:01     ` Pádraig Brady
2025-09-20 17:04       ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-20 20:05         ` Collin Funk
2025-09-20 21:05           ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-20 23:02             ` Collin Funk
2025-09-21  8:36               ` Alejandro Colomar
     [not found]           ` <PA3P190MB24382227EA61EC2758D5AA11C410A@PA3P190MB2438.EURP190.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
2025-09-20 23:18             ` Collin Funk
2025-09-22 15:06             ` Michael Greenberg
2025-09-20 17:42       ` Jakub Wilk
2025-09-20 21:10         ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-20 21:22           ` Collin Funk
2025-09-21  8:28         ` Bernhard Voelker
2025-09-21 20:00       ` Chuck Wolber
2025-09-21 12:02 ` Arsen Arsenović
2025-09-21 12:53   ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-25 14:04     ` Arsen Arsenović
2025-09-25 14:31       ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-29  9:46         ` Arsen Arsenović
2025-09-29 10:33           ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-29 21:26             ` Arsen Arsenović
2025-09-29 21:38               ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-29 21:41             ` Pádraig Brady
2025-09-29 23:27               ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-30 10:12                 ` Pádraig Brady
2025-09-30 21:14                   ` Bernhard Voelker
2025-09-30 13:23       ` Rob Landley
2025-09-30 13:35         ` G. Branden Robinson [this message]
2025-09-30 19:57         ` Arsen Arsenović
2025-09-30 20:55           ` G. Branden Robinson
2025-10-01 13:21             ` Arsen Arsenović
2025-10-01 19:37           ` Rob Landley
2025-10-02 18:46             ` Arsen Arsenović
2025-10-02 20:48               ` G. Branden Robinson

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