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From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
	Jim Zemlin <jzemlin@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	tech-board@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: [patch] man-pages is supported
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:36:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4857A1C7.10100@gmail.com> (raw)

Andrew,

Could you please apply the following.

Starting last month, I reached a long-time goal: man-pages finally has a paid,
full-time maintainer, thanks to a fellowship from the Linux Foundation.  It's
still a little unclear how long the LF money will last for the fellowship, but
for the foreseeable future, I'll be working on:

* Properly documenting every new Linux kernel-userland (and glibc) API, and
every API change, that is released into the mainline kernel, ideally before
actual release.  (That's the ideal, but there's a quite a backlog, so I'm not
going to achieve the ideal immediately.)
* Testing new APIs, again ideally before they are released into the mainline
kernel, and probably doing some light bug fixing while I'm at it (e.g., the
recent utimensat() work).
* Design review of new APIs, which of course can only usefully be done before
they are released into the mainline kernel.
* And of course accepting patches and dealing with bug reports for existing
man pages.

Cheers,

Michael

--- linux-2.6.26-rc5/MAINTAINERS.old    2008-06-09 10:36:14.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc5/MAINTAINERS        2008-06-09 10:37:27.000000000 +0200
@@ -2680,8 +2680,8 @@
 MAN-PAGES: MANUAL PAGES FOR LINUX -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7
 P:     Michael Kerrisk
 M:     mtk.manpages@gmail.com
-W:     ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages
-S:     Maintained
+W:     http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages
+S:     Supported

 MARVELL LIBERTAS WIRELESS DRIVER
 P:     Dan Williams




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