On Saturday 05 September 2009 5:56:30 pm Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm one of the Ark maintainers, and while looking at bug 206284, it > came to my attention that there is a man page for ark which was > written in 2005 and has never been updated. I was thinking of removing > it altogether, as it is likely not to be kept up-to-date. > > I tried to look for some kind of policy for this over Techbase, but > didn't find anything. So my question is whether I can freely remove > that man page from kdeutils/doc/ark or if it should remain there, even > if not up-to-date and likely to confuse some users (besides, not many > KDE applications seem to have man pages). > Raphael,
I think we have general policy that "no documentation is better than wrong documentation". Personally, I like man pages and wish we had at least basic man pages for all the apps. But if don't want to support a man page for Ark, then certainly you should remove the old, outdated file(s). -Allen
