Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jun 2007 20:45:34 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: man-pages-2.54 is released |
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On Jun 8 2007 18:03, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Release Philosophy > ================== > > If you make sweeping *formatting* changes on a large number of > pages, separate them out into their own release that contains > minimal *content* changes. This makes it easier for the people > that want to verify content changes independently of the change > log. Yes, some people actually diff each release to see what > changed; for example, downstream maintainers, and translators of > the man pages (such as the dedicated Alain Portal, in recent > times) sometimes like to do this.
I think that sounds more like a repository (svn/git) philosophy than a release philosophy.
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