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PATCH New Michael Kerrisk 1 participant 1 message Jun 17, 2008

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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

MAINTAINERS 2008-06-09 10:37:27.000000000 +0200 renamed from MAINTAINERS.old 2008-06-09 10:36:14.000000000 +0200 +2 -2
@@ -2680,8 +2680,8 @@
 MAN-PAGES: MANUAL PAGES FOR LINUX -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7
 P:     Michael Kerrisk
 M:     [email protected]
-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