From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2024 11:07:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Migrate away from vger to GitHub or (on-premise) GitLab?
Message-ID: <6b34d999-3da2-42ef-bfff-37c8f592347f@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <691395bc13ea6c3013adcb98cfcbd102@manjaro.org>

On 01/02/2024 19:00, Dragan Simic wrote:
> On 2024-02-01 19:36, Hans Meiser wrote:
> Please keep in mind that editing the git man pages requires very
> intimate knowledge of the related git source code.  Many times even
> small changes to the language style can change the meaning and diverge
> the man pages from the source code, making the man pages useless.

While there are some aspects of the documentation that require a 
familiarity with the source I don't think that is true in general. If 
someone has a suggestion to improve part of the documentation that they 
found hard to understand we should be encouraging them to contribute a 
patch. There is no doubt that there are places where our documentation 
could be improved and it is not necessary to be a C programmer to 
contribute improvements to it.

Best Wishes

Phillip