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Re: [PATCH 00/23] doc: cleanups and asciidoctor direct man pages

From
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 23, 2021, 01:37 UTC
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Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
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> On 21/06/21 23.30, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > I already sent the first part of this series separately multiple times,
> > the last one is 4 simple obviously correct patches [1], but since the
> > maintainer has admitted he has no problem ignoring valid work
> > entirely due to personal animus [2], I'm sending the whole chain.
> > 
> > There's no point in carefully selecting multiple series of patches to be
> > merged one by one when all of them are going to be ignored. So I'm
> > sending all 3 series at once.
> > 
> > Hopefully by sending it all at once some people will be able to realize
> > that:
> > 
> >   1. They are valid
> >   2. They are helpful
> >   3. They make the code more maintainable
> >   4. They enable new features
> >   5. They enable the new features to be easily tested
> >   6. They reduce the doc-diff of the new feature, as well as others
> >   7. They are superior to the competing series currently in seen
> >   8. They include work of multiple contributors
> > 
> > Any fair and impartial maintainer would attempt to pick them up.
> > 
> > Cheers.
> > 
> 
> I think the next step after this patch series is to add asciidoctor 
> direct man pages generation option to ./configure script (maybe 
> --enable-asciidoctor-manpage?). But before that, we need to add 
> --enable-asciidoctor option, which sets USE_ASCIIDOCTOR=YesPlease.

Maybe. I don't use ./configure, so perhaps somebody that does should take charge of this.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
Previous: Bagas Sanjaya
Message 28 of 28 in “doc: cleanups and asciidoctor direct man pages”
  1. 00/23 doc: cleanups and asciidoctor direct man pagesFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  2. 01/23 doc: remove GNU troff workaroundFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  3. 03/23 doc: simplify version passingFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  4. 02/23 doc: use --stringparam in xmltoFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  5. 04/23 doc: asciidoc: remove unnecessary attributeFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  6. 05/23 doc: asciidoctor: remove unnecessary requireFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  7. 07/23 doc: asciidoctor: reorganize extensionsFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  8. 06/23 doc: asciidoctor: remove cruftFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  9. 10/23 doc: asciidoctor: improve string handlingFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  10. 11/23 doc: asciidoctor: split the format from the codeFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  11. 09/23 doc: asciidoctor: refactor macro registrationFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  12. 08/23 doc: asciidoctor: use html-prefix only for htmlFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  13. 12/23 doc: asciidoctor: specify name of our groupFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  14. 13/23 doc: doc-diff: set docdate manuallyFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  15. 14/23 doc-diff: drop --cut-footer switchFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  16. 15/23 doc: use asciidoctor to build man pages directlyFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  17. Bagas SanjayaJun 22, 2021
  18. Felipe ContrerasJun 23, 2021
  19. 16/23 doc-diff: support asciidoctor man pagesFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  20. 19/23 doc: asciidoctor: add hack for xrefsFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  21. 20/23 doc: asciidoctor: add hack to improve linksFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  22. 22/23 doc: asciidoctor: cleanup man page hackFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  23. 17/23 doc: asciidoctor: add linkgit macros in man pagesFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  24. 18/23 doc: add man pages workaround for asciidoctorFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  25. 23/23 doc: asciidoctor: add hack for old versionsFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  26. 21/23 doc: asciidoctor: add support for baseurlFelipe Contreras, Jun 21, 2021
  27. Bagas SanjayaJun 22, 2021
  28. Felipe ContrerasJun 23, 2021

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