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A response that isn't mentioned here (perhaps because no one issued it?): WTFM. The manual is a community project. Improve it and send a patch! Do not be afrai
by Sir_Cmpwn 8y ago
A response that isn't mentioned here (perhaps because no one issued it?): WTFM.
The manual is a community project. Improve it and send a patch! Do not be afraid to send patches to anything and everything, this is the beauty of the open source world we live in.
- gok 8y agoThis might happen more if the owner of man-pages entered the 21st century and took Github pull requests instead of maintaining a convoluted email patch mailing process [1]. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/patches.html https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/patches.html
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoFuck that. Emailing patches is a great way of collaboration. The time it'd take you to get your head out of the GitHub clouds and learn how to use email for patches (you even found a guide!) would be less than the amount of time the article author spent on both of their articles.
- andrepd 8y agoI'll be honest, you come across as a bit of a curmudgeon, but you're totally right! In a fraction of the time it took them to write an article, and a response to the responses to that article, they could have just emailed a better wording and fixed the problem!