From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C021DC433DF for ; Fri, 15 May 2020 07:50:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3C2205CB for ; Fri, 15 May 2020 07:50:14 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b="YBHLZGqu" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726708AbgEOHuO (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2020 03:50:14 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com ([207.211.31.120]:56580 "EHLO us-smtp-1.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726706AbgEOHuN (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2020 03:50:13 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1589529012; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=x5lyL9GEFdemyzPMJ9qJwU57nAVDyZhWdISkU1yAlTg=; b=YBHLZGqudr69YtYjGku3iEJAunpGEy1Rq/rwPctBtQnUARnYxHbV8imFwmFWbFyhsHDHv2 3oqW1ZoBo/w5bszLa02eTm1Q8vciYCwBh5if1uvVd9OHa259VfLb1kCW83Icgt4RjL3Hh+ /ay62WsB3rmSAy28lRtVISL7zKN8ZuI= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-67-Pp1dN3hYOdeUurRizKY4jw-1; Fri, 15 May 2020 03:50:09 -0400 X-MC-Unique: Pp1dN3hYOdeUurRizKY4jw-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E11CE835B43; Fri, 15 May 2020 07:50:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ws.net.home (unknown [10.40.193.102]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 93C1412A4D; Fri, 15 May 2020 07:50:06 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 09:50:03 +0200 From: Karel Zak To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Michael Kerrisk , Helge Kreutzmann , util-linux@vger.kernel.org, Mario =?utf-8?Q?Bl=C3=A4ttermann?= Subject: Re: Errors in util-linux man pages, here: adjtime_config.5: Wording Message-ID: <20200515075003.szuxgob6qy63imva@ws.net.home> References: <20200514185116.GA25596@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal> <5372295b-b74b-2bf9-a8d1-bf1b38edcb30@physik.fu-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.11 Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: util-linux@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 10:15:47PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 5/14/20 10:09 PM, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > >> On 5/14/20 8:51 PM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > >>> I'm now reporting the errors for your project. If future reports should > >>> use another channel, please let me know. > >> > >> I think you should send your changes as patches, preferably with a git pull > >> request as the current form of submitting these changes requires a lot of > >> manual editing due to the large number of changes involved. > > > > Well, yes, but see > > https://lore.kernel.org/util-linux/CAKgNAkgqKs=Q4qvPHirHa6KjW3qOqyyNG7sCxHX2RfWiOBqRbg@mail.gmail.com/ > > Doesn't convince, me really. I don't think it's too much to ask for to > read the documentation of git and then create a set of patches. Helge's way provides opportunity for other mailing list members to contribute :-) > I wouldn't accept such mass mails for my own projects, it's just way too > much work to import all these changes manually. And I also haven't seen > any other project do that in the past 20 years, so I'm not sure how successful > this strategy is. Sharing is caring ... better report bugs than ignore. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com