Re: Man-pages Git repository

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On 16 Mar 2022 18:27, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> On 3/16/22 14:14, John Marshall wrote:
> > At https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/ it appears that no new commits have been pushed since early September 2021. However here in the linux-man mailing list archives, it appears that changes are continuing to be applied as usual.
> > 
> > I didn't find anything in the mailing list archives discussing this or mentioning a change in repository location. Is there something I'm missing about where to find an up-to-date Git repository for the Linux man pages?
> 
> I keep updating the repository on my own git server,
> <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/>.
> That's where patches to the mailing list are being merged since half a
> year ago.
> 
> However, we haven't released any new versions since then.
> There's only the git repository,
> which you can use to get the freshest manual pages,
> or prepare new patches against them.
> 
> We (the maintainers) haven't had much time to prepare a release,
> but the official (kernel.org) repository
> will get updated some time in the future.

please keep the canonical git repo up-to-date.  it's what everyone is using,
and it shouldn't be updated only when releases are pushed.  no one is going
to find your personal server, and if they did, i don't see why anyone would
trust it as the canonical source.
-mike

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