From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: John Marshall <John.W.Marshall@glasgow.ac.uk>,
"linux-man@vger.kernel.org" <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Man-pages Git repository
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:14:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YjjquYSCEnlFr0PJ@vapier> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2d3cff38-ba32-b382-c043-397af12d286b@gmail.com>
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On 16 Mar 2022 18:27, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> On 3/16/22 14:14, John Marshall wrote:
> > At https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/ it appears that no new commits have been pushed since early September 2021. However here in the linux-man mailing list archives, it appears that changes are continuing to be applied as usual.
> >
> > I didn't find anything in the mailing list archives discussing this or mentioning a change in repository location. Is there something I'm missing about where to find an up-to-date Git repository for the Linux man pages?
>
> I keep updating the repository on my own git server,
> <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/>.
> That's where patches to the mailing list are being merged since half a
> year ago.
>
> However, we haven't released any new versions since then.
> There's only the git repository,
> which you can use to get the freshest manual pages,
> or prepare new patches against them.
>
> We (the maintainers) haven't had much time to prepare a release,
> but the official (kernel.org) repository
> will get updated some time in the future.
please keep the canonical git repo up-to-date. it's what everyone is using,
and it shouldn't be updated only when releases are pushed. no one is going
to find your personal server, and if they did, i don't see why anyone would
trust it as the canonical source.
-mike
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-21 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-16 13:14 Man-pages Git repository John Marshall
2022-03-16 17:27 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2022-03-21 21:14 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2022-03-21 22:55 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2022-03-22 9:49 ` Christian Aistleitner
2022-03-22 11:44 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2022-06-04 1:26 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-06-04 11:43 ` Christian Aistleitner
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