Re: [PATCH] man-pages.7: Document CAVEATS section

["Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hi Ingo,

On 7/27/22 11:14, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Alejandro,
> 
> Alejandro Colomar wrote on Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 09:02:40PM +0200:
> 
>> Thanks for the investigation.  Committed, with a similar commit message
>> (changing references to man(7) by "manual pages", since I consider
>> mdoc(7) pages as relevant in this regard).
> 
> Your commit cb828372 looks good, thanks!
> 
> The following is certainly not a big deal, just mentioning it because
> chances are this may not have been the last time i contributed
> something to your project.

I hope it's not the last :)

> 
> In commit histories, release notes and the like, i prefer being
> credited as Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> rathen than
> <schwarze@usta.de>.  The reason is that in a hundred years from
> now, i expect people will still know what openbsd.org is, but it
> seems rather unlikely they would still know what usta.de was.
> 
> You may wonder why i rarely use @openbsd.org in my From: headers.
> The reason is that i want to avoid the wrong impression that all my
> mails were official statements of the OpenBSD project.  While many
> opinions i voice might also be shared by some other OpenBSD developers,
> some clearly are not.  And disclaimers in a signature are annoying.
> There is less risk that people think i'm speaking for the UStA of
> the University of Karlsruhe.  :-)
> 
> Probably i should try to remember saying "if you credit me,
> please use this address: ..." when a commit is obviously imminent.
> I often forget because the vast majority of messages that credit me
> are inside OpenBSD, and there it goes without saying.

Sure, I'll try to remember.

Cheers,

Alex

> 
> Yours,
>    Ingo

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Alejandro Colomar
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