Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:36:39 +0200 | Subject | [patch] man-pages is supported | From | Michael Kerrisk <> |
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Andrew,
Could you please apply the following.
Starting last month, I reached a long-time goal: man-pages finally has a paid, full-time maintainer, thanks to a fellowship from the Linux Foundation. It's still a little unclear how long the LF money will last for the fellowship, but for the foreseeable future, I'll be working on:
* Properly documenting every new Linux kernel-userland (and glibc) API, and every API change, that is released into the mainline kernel, ideally before actual release. (That's the ideal, but there's a quite a backlog, so I'm not going to achieve the ideal immediately.) * Testing new APIs, again ideally before they are released into the mainline kernel, and probably doing some light bug fixing while I'm at it (e.g., the recent utimensat() work). * Design review of new APIs, which of course can only usefully be done before they are released into the mainline kernel. * And of course accepting patches and dealing with bug reports for existing man pages.
Cheers,
Michael
--- linux-2.6.26-rc5/MAINTAINERS.old 2008-06-09 10:36:14.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.26-rc5/MAINTAINERS 2008-06-09 10:37:27.000000000 +0200 @@ -2680,8 +2680,8 @@ MAN-PAGES: MANUAL PAGES FOR LINUX -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 P: Michael Kerrisk M: mtk.manpages@gmail.com -W: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages -S: Maintained +W: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages +S: Supported
MARVELL LIBERTAS WIRELESS DRIVER P: Dan Williams
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