Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:35:28 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Kazuo Horikawa <horikawa@psinet.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mdoc police and MAINTAINER (was Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ffsinfo ffsinfo.8 src/sbin/init init.8 src/sbin/sysctl sysctl.8) Message-ID: <20001222113528.A6764@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <200012212324.eBLNOov00570@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@Awfulhak.org on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:24:50PM %2B0000 References: <grog@lemis.com> <200012212324.eBLNOov00570@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:24:50PM +0000, Brian Somers wrote:
> > > Here, there's no MAINTAINER so Ruslan's question about why you
> > > backed out his change is valid.
> >
> > I answered that question. I keep a separate tree for Vinum (so
> > technically, I suppose it's a vendor branch or some such). I make
> > changes to that tree, and occasionally I get out of sync. In this
> > case, it happened to DES as well, but he didn't make as much noise.
>
> ppp is in the same boat. Ruslan has done the same amount of
> good/evil to that (ppp's man page is now different in OpenBSD - and
> NetBSD if they ever chose to import it).... I looked at the patches
> and decided that what Ruslan did was a benefit and therefore didn't
> say anything - I'm pretty sure Ruslan did the same (we're now in a
> position where we can argue that FreeBSD is right and {Net,Open}BSD
> is wrong).
>
> IMHO being able to say ``.Nm .'' is a good thing. I don't think
> anyone should chastise Ruslan for progression !
>
This feature is now standard, and will be in Groff 1.17's mdocNG,
which should be released near the Christmas. I am sure NetBSD and
OpenBSD will start using the mdocNG too, since it is really cool
compared with the current mdoc(7).
After we resolve one nasty issue left with mdocNG, I will post a
brief summary of forthcoming (in mdocNG) changes and benefits.
There is also a new mdoc.reference(7) manpage, which is much more
informative than current mdoc(7) and mdoc.samples(7).
Cheers,
--
Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA,
ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG,
ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer,
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