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

Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2022-07-27T09:24:01Z

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
Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/