Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff

Re:Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to... by kitsunesoba on Monday August 20, 2018 @12:58PM (#17801580)

I don’t think being afraid of the process is the problem. It’s more about how unnecessarily manual the process is paired with the possibility of your patch’s email thread getting buried never to be seen again or worse, its reviewer abandoning it halfway through the review process with no easy way for someone else to pick it up.

That’s not to say that Github pull requests and the like are perfect (far from it) but it’s undeniable that they smooth the process quite considerably and make contribution far more accessible.

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Re:Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to... by Sir_Cmpwn on Monday August 20, 2018 @01:01PM (#17801615)

People are busy. If you want your patch considered, you should be bumping it and reaching out to people who can merge it. Man page improvements are generally a shoe-in, just get someone to pay attention to it for a few minutes and it'll get in.

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Re:Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to... by mikebenfield on Monday August 20, 2018 @01:37PM (#17801966)

The process you're describing in this comment is exactly the outdated approach people are saying they don't want to do.

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Re:Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to... by Sir_Cmpwn on Monday August 20, 2018 @02:32PM (#17802530)

It's not like this isn't a problem for GitHub, either. Pull requests go ignored, too.

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