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Re: Migrate away from vger to GitHub or (on-premise) GitLab?

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DSDragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Date
Feb 2, 2024, 11:13 UTC
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On 2024-02-02 12:07, Phillip Wood wrote:
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> 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.

Sure, but there has to be someone with intimate knowledge of the git source code in the entire chain, if you agree, to make sure that improving the readability or style doesn't diverge the man pages from the truth.

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Message 20 of 48 in “Migrate away from vger to GitHub or (on-premise) GitLab?”
  1. Hans MeiserFeb 1, 2024
  2. Kristoffer HaugsbakkFeb 1, 2024
  3. Hans MeiserFeb 1, 2024
  4. Antonin DelpeuchFeb 1, 2024
  5. Dragan SimicFeb 1, 2024
  6. Konstantin RyabitsevFeb 1, 2024
  7. Dragan SimicFeb 1, 2024
  8. Dragan SimicFeb 1, 2024
  9. Hans MeiserFeb 1, 2024
  10. Dragan SimicFeb 1, 2024
  11. Hans MeiserFeb 1, 2024
  12. Dragan SimicFeb 1, 2024
  13. rsbecker@nexbridge.comFeb 1, 2024
  14. Dragan SimicFeb 1, 2024
  15. Hans MeiserFeb 2, 2024
  16. Hans MeiserFeb 2, 2024
  17. Dragan SimicFeb 2, 2024
  18. Muting and unmuting threads (Was: Migrate away from vger to GitHub or (on-premise) GitLab?)Dragan Simic, Feb 2, 2024
  19. Phillip WoodFeb 2, 2024
  20. Dragan SimicFeb 2, 2024
  21. Junio C HamanoFeb 2, 2024
  22. brian m. carlsonFeb 2, 2024
  23. Patrick SteinhardtFeb 2, 2024
  24. Phillip WoodFeb 2, 2024
  25. Michal SuchánekFeb 2, 2024
  26. Dragan SimicFeb 2, 2024
  27. Oswald BuddenhagenFeb 4, 2024
  28. Dragan SimicFeb 4, 2024
  29. Michal SuchánekFeb 4, 2024
  30. Dragan SimicFeb 4, 2024
  31. Michal SuchánekFeb 4, 2024
  32. Oswald BuddenhagenFeb 5, 2024
  33. Hans MeiserFeb 2, 2024
  34. Hans MeiserFeb 2, 2024
  35. Nico WilliamsFeb 1, 2024
  36. Kristoffer HaugsbakkFeb 1, 2024
  37. Sergey OrganovFeb 2, 2024
  38. rsbecker@nexbridge.comFeb 2, 2024
  39. Theodore Ts'oFeb 2, 2024
  40. Michal SuchánekFeb 2, 2024
  41. Junio C HamanoFeb 2, 2024
  42. Theodore Ts'oFeb 2, 2024
  43. Hans MeiserFeb 6, 2024
  44. Dragan SimicFeb 6, 2024
  45. Junio C HamanoFeb 2, 2024
  46. rsbecker@nexbridge.comFeb 2, 2024
  47. Junio C HamanoFeb 2, 2024
  48. rsbecker@nexbridge.comFeb 2, 2024

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