From owner-cvs-all Fri Dec 22 1:38:17 2000 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 01:38:12 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 335AF37B402; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 01:37:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eBM9ZSC07613; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:35:28 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:35:28 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Brian Somers Cc: Greg Lehey , Warner Losh , Kazuo Horikawa , 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> Mail-Followup-To: Brian Somers , Greg Lehey , Warner Losh , Kazuo Horikawa , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org References: <200012212324.eBLNOov00570@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200012212324.eBLNOov00570@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@Awfulhak.org on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:24:50PM +0000 Sender: ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message