[patch] man-pages is supported

From: Michael Kerrisk
Date: Tue Jun 17 2008 - 07:37:39 EST


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

--- linux-2.6.26-rc5/MAINTAINERS.old 2008-06-09 10:36:14.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc5/MAINTAINERS 2008-06-09 10:37:27.000000000 +0200
@@ -2680,8 +2680,8 @@
MAN-PAGES: MANUAL PAGES FOR LINUX -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7
P: Michael Kerrisk
M: mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx
-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



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