From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:46590 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751009AbdE2KWt (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2017 06:22:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 12:22:45 +0200 From: Karel Zak To: J William Piggott Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Meier , util-linux Subject: Re: versioning Message-ID: <20170529102245.cbwndbup2nwbbcna@ws.net.home> References: <24e52021-2e94-68a7-bd8c-51362af1d749@gmx.com> <20170518195648.gxhsd4zak57wfcg3@ws.net.home> <2d5ad507-f51c-7b1b-3aa3-355609cb609c@gmx.de> <20170520193446.bt44te35kji2gmzo@ws.net.home> <20170523075733.wwlzrff6atybmsal@ws.net.home> <20170523080513.3yhhfzlmnyqoovpd@ws.net.home> <614d0e03-6baf-861b-8636-71c07443b3b6@gmx.com> <671ded97-cdf5-6f01-393d-a96372382f13@gmx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <671ded97-cdf5-6f01-393d-a96372382f13@gmx.com> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 02:55:41PM -0400, J William Piggott wrote: > > > On 05/23/2017 04:54 PM, J William Piggott wrote: > > > > I think I will submit a patch to add something to Documentation about > > this so that someone else might not ask the same dumb questions. > > I started on this and noticed that the source-code-management.txt and > README files are very similar. README actually has a more complete > version schema breakdown. Is there any reason that they should not be > combined into a single file? No problem, but I'd like to keep all most important information (=links, addresses, etc.) in the README file. Send patch :-) > README includes the mailing list. Is there any reason that the IRC > channel shouldn't be there instead of in howto-contribute.txt? Send patch :-) > The howto-contribute.txt file says patches can be sent to the mailing > list or directly to Karel, and points to README for the addresses. Is > there any reason not to have Karel's email contact in the README? I don't think it's so important, but no problem to change it. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com