Re: man-pages-3.23 is released

[Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Petr,

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Petr Baudis <pasky-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>  Hi!
>
> On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 08:13:30AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>> The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:
>>
>>    man-pages-3.23.tar.gz - man pages for Linux
>
>  Seeing how many patches seem to be left on the floor, do you need some
> help with the maintenance? I don't really have that much time myself,
> but maybe just making the process a bit more open and liberal could
> help... (If it's wrong, sooner or later someone will send in a patch to
> fix it. ;-)

Well, I could do with some good help right now, but there are few volunteers.

My observation about being liberal in accepting patches is that enough
bad patches come in that this would be a mistake. And I've in the past
found some mistakes that lived in man pages for years.

>  It's rather sad when people spend many hours composing a manpage, only
> to see their work ignored.

Yeay. I don't feel great about it either. However the work isn't
ignored. It's just in a very long queue. Towards the end of this year,
things should ease considerably, and if I don't otherwise get help
before then, I'll start working through the backlog then. (In the
meantime, I pick away at the queue now and then.)

And, again, my apologies to you personally, since I know you have a
few queued patches.

Cheers,

Michael

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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/
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