I recently look into Wget documentations and found the specification of "--random-wait" option seems to have been changed, but not explicitly announced in "ChangeLog"s. To make things worse, help messages included in src/main.c and po/*.po are obsolete.
I suggest to update main.c and *.po files and show changes in --random-wait option explicitly in ChangeLogs. In the latest version Wget 1.12, doc/wget.texi, which comes with http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.12.tar.lzma, says: >This option causes the time between requests >to vary between 0.5 and 1.5 * wait seconds... It was changed from what I knew. I dug into GNU archives and found that doc/wget.texi included in http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget-1.10.2.tar.gz says; >This option causes the time between requests >to vary between 0 and 2 * wait seconds... I also found a comment in src/retr.c of version 1.10.2 says: /* Sleep a random amount of time averaging in opt.wait seconds. The sleeping amount ranges from 0 to opt.wait*2, inclusive. */ and comments in src/retr.c in versions 1.11.1 and 1.12 say: /* Sleep a random amount of time averaging in opt.wait seconds. The sleeping amount ranges from 0.5*opt.wait to 1.5*opt.wait. */ On the other hand, help messages in src/main.c in Wget-1.12 archive still says: >--random-wait wait from 0...2*WAIT secs >between retrievals and corresponding messages in *.po files say such (All I understand is en_US.po,en_GB.po,ja.po, though). This inconsistency is confusing and the help message should be updated. I also suggest the changes should be reflected in the ChangeLog file. Regards,
