On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:50:21 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Currently, the man pages are stored as troff (a text format) in the open >> repo, and a content-wise identical copy is stored as markdown (another text >> format) in the closed repo. >> >> Since markdown is preferred to troff in terms of editing, we make changes to >> the man pages in markdown and then convert it to troff. >> >> This closed-markdown to open-troff processing needs to be done manually by >> an Oracle engineer. This is done regularly at the start and end of a new >> release cycle, adding to the burden of creating a new release. It is also >> done (if any of the reviewers knows about the process) whenever an Oracle >> engineer updates a man page. If a community contributor changes the behavior >> of a tool, an Oracle engineer needs to change the documentation for them, >> since they cannot do it themselves. > > Magnus Ihse Bursie has updated the pull request incrementally with one > additional commit since the last revision: > > It's somewhat nicer to use \\s instead of space character in regex Marked as reviewed by cstein (Committer). ------------- PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22081#pullrequestreview-2439039366
