man-pages maintainership (was: Re: [PATCH v2] madvise.2: Clarify addr/length and update hugetlb support)

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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Hi David!

On 5/31/22 11:10, David Hildenbrand wrote:
 > BTW, the git repository [1] was last updated 2021-09-02. One of my
 > patches [2] was apparently picked up (reply via mail) but doesn't appear
 > in that repository.
 >
 > Is the project currently dead/unmaintained or am I just staring at the
 > wrong repository?
 >
 > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git
 > [2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210823120645.8223-1-david@redhat.com
 >

Your patch has been applied here:
<http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/man2/madvise.2?id=9f307c06efc8c40a8aff30cf13ef3a8528be9222>

The project is maintained, but the git repository is unmaintained.
I keep reviewing and applying patches in my personal git repository, but 
I don't have access to kernel.org yet, so the official sites are 
unmaintained.  And of course, that also means no releases since 5.13.

I'm not very concerned about this, since in essence, a fork of the 
manual pages is still very well maintained on my server, and free for 
anyone interested in reading up-to-date pages.  And since I do this on a 
hobby basis (my company doesn't pay me to do this at all), I don't care 
at all about not having released in almost a year now.  That's more of a 
problem for distros and companies, which need releases.  For 
individuals, I recommend getting a copy of my manual pages' git repo and 
`make install`.

I applied recently for a kernel.org account, so maybe the official repo 
can be maintained again soon.  Still, I don't expect releasing soon even 
if I get access to kernel.org and can update the git repo.  I need to 
learn how to do a release properly before I'll release a new version, 
and that will take a lot more effort and time from my side than updating 
the repo.

Thanks for your patience!


Cheers,

Alex

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Alejandro Colomar
<http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>

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