From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org, mario.blaettermann@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Errors in util-linux man pages, here: adjtime_config.5: Wording
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 21:46:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d9fe9cdf-c9a4-b8b0-2407-922c7ee10756@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200514194229.GA29387@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal>
On 5/14/20 9:42 PM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Sorry, this won't be possible as stated in my long e-mail.
I haven't read that mail, but I don't understand what reason should prevent
anyone from sending a patch.
> However, in the future the number of changes should be (much!) lower,
> as I don't think we wait another 10 years for reporting.
>
> And you can process them at your convenience, for us (translators)
> there is no time pressure at all, many (formatting) issues are fixed
> in the translation already.
But how are the changes supposed to get into the git repository?
If you send something like 50 mails, someone has to sit down and edit
all these changes manually. I don't think anyone is going to do that,
it's just way too tedious.
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-14 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-14 18:51 Errors in util-linux man pages, here: adjtime_config.5: Wording Helge Kreutzmann
2020-05-14 19:20 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2020-05-14 19:42 ` Helge Kreutzmann
2020-05-14 19:46 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [this message]
2020-05-14 20:09 ` Michael Kerrisk
2020-05-14 20:15 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2020-05-14 20:33 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-05-15 7:50 ` Karel Zak
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