On Thu, May 04, 2017, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Doug McIlroy <[email protected]>: > > It would be well to have the Linux manpages project on board for man macro > > discussions. Is anyone from that project on this mailing list? > > > > If not, they should probably be invited to participate. A job for Peter > > Shafter? > > I believe I was the last person to modify the Linux man page macros. > Their current maintainer is not the kind of groff expert to whom it > would occur to modify them; it would work as well to ask me questions > and ask me to push changes through to the project repo, probably.
Notwithstanding, I've alerted the linux-manpages list. We tend to go round and round on manpage debates. A little fresh blood might be useful. At the very least, they should be au courant about proposed changes, even if they're not the people to implement them. -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca
