26 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-hackersRe: Request for submissions: FreeBSD ...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Robert Watson | Jul 11, 2002 10:13 pm | |
| Robert Watson | Jul 14, 2002 9:23 pm | |
| Robert Watson | Jul 18, 2002 7:42 am | |
| Julian Elischer | Jul 18, 2002 8:30 am | |
| Robert Watson | Jul 18, 2002 10:17 am | |
| Terry Lambert | Jul 18, 2002 2:34 pm | |
| Robert Watson | Jul 18, 2002 5:17 pm | |
| Paul Richards | Jul 18, 2002 5:31 pm | |
| Robert Watson | Jul 18, 2002 5:45 pm | |
| Garance A Drosihn | Jul 18, 2002 6:27 pm | |
| Matthew Dillon | Jul 18, 2002 9:29 pm | |
| Brandon D. Valentine | Jul 18, 2002 11:43 pm | |
| John Baldwin | Jul 19, 2002 6:01 am | |
| Robert Watson | Jul 19, 2002 6:34 am | |
| Julian Elischer | Jul 19, 2002 10:54 am | |
| Robert Watson | Jul 19, 2002 11:44 am | |
| Julian Elischer | Jul 19, 2002 12:00 pm | |
| Greg 'groggy' Lehey | Jul 19, 2002 9:19 pm | |
| Tetsurou Okazaki | Jul 21, 2002 6:53 am | |
| Bob Willcox | Jul 21, 2002 7:10 am | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | Jul 21, 2002 8:41 am | |
| Greg 'groggy' Lehey | Jul 21, 2002 5:28 pm | |
| Chris Costello | Jul 21, 2002 6:55 pm | |
| David Schultz | Jul 21, 2002 10:32 pm | |
| Nik Clayton | Jul 24, 2002 1:31 pm | |
| Greg 'groggy' Lehey | Jul 29, 2002 1:03 am |
| Subject: | Re: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd) | |
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| From: | Robert Watson (rwat...@FreeBSD.org) | |
| Date: | Jul 18, 2002 5:45:27 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-hackers | |
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Paul Richards wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Watson" <rwat...@FreeBSD.org> To: "Terry Lambert" <tlam...@mindspring.com> Cc: "Julian Elischer" <jul...@elischer.org>; <deve...@FreeBSD.org>; <hack...@FreeBSD.org> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 1:18 AM Subject: Re: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd)
tags, removal of a necessary tag, etc. If I had to guess, asking for nroff/mdoc submissions would result in a slightly higher success rate, as I suspect developers have a bit more experience with it, and also don't have to install a port to get syntax checking.
I wonder how true that is these days. The last time I used nroff was for my masters thesis which was in 1990! Does anyone except man page maintainers still use it in earnest?
You seem to have picked up the Microsoft Outlook quoting style when responding to messages :-).
I've seen many base system developers commit man pages, but few commit to the docbook/sgml side of things in the doc project. People whine loudly about using sgml, and whine a lot less about copy-and-pasting a man page. While your assertion is likely true outside the FreeBSD src developer community, I'm pretty sure it's not true inside of it. The FreeBSD src developer community is, after all, a community of people who write software that frequently ships with man pages. Sure, the nroff markup may not be the best, but it's still workable.
Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects rob...@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories
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