On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:53:17AM -0500, Brian Utterback wrote: > By the way, the timer is set for the 29th. If anyone feels that this is not > a sufficient time given the holiday, please speak up.
Most other fast-tracks filed around this time have been given timers that extend into January. I would suggest extending it until the 13th, but show up to the meeting on the 6th (if there is one) and see if it can't be closed at that point. > One thing that came up is regarding the man page. There seems to be a > desire to publish man pages "as is", with as few changes as possible for > FOSS porting projects. For instance, this project is delivering exctags and > the man page will be exctags.1, but the synopsis will show two > executables, ctags and etags, only one of which is being delivered and not > under that name. It was pointed out to me that this follows existing > practice. For instance, gmake is delivered with a man page that says "make" > in the synopsis. > > This practice seems wrong to me. To me, too, but if you're going to be pushing a lot of F/OSS through our processes, making little corrections here and there can slow a lot of people down. If you feel you have the time to make these corrections, though, please do so -- accuracy is highly desired. The SFW C-team is likely to ask you to put an Attributes section at the end of the page anyway, so fixing the other bits might not be too onerous on top of that. Danek
