Hi Jean, At 2022-07-04T14:18:11+0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Branden, > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 03:34:22 -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Thanks for your review of these patches; I think we had a good meeting > > of the minds. Just needs that final push. > > It's been a while, I know.
Indeed it has! > As part of SUSE's Hack Week 21, I decided to exhume this old patch > series of yours which has been in the back of my mind for the last 4 > years. I could never get over the idea that all the work we both put > into it would go to waste. I agree. I have not forgotten about this; I simply had a couple of international moves, changed jobs, and got even more deeply engrossed in groff development. :) > The project's page is here: > https://hackweek.opensuse.org/21/projects/update-quilts-manual-page > > What I've done so far: > * Rebase the whole series on top of the current version of quilt's > manual page. There were lots of context changes due to additions and > fixes that were made to the manual page over the last 4 years. > * Update individual patches to propagate the changes to the added > paragraphs, so that the changes are consistent and complete for the > current version of the manual page. Sounds good! > Now I'm reaching the next step of the process, which is to go through > my own review and apply the suggested corrections where applicable. > Unfortunately, I see that there were a lot of questions of mine which > were left unanswered. As I do not have your deep knowledge of the roff > language, macros and good practices, I don't feel good enforcing my > views. A bit of good news is that I've managed to learn a few more things over the past four years. So I may now have ideas about how to solve certain problems that I didn't back then. > On the other hand, there are a few changes you proposed which clearly > did not make sense or were confusing, so it also does not feel right > to apply your patches without cleaning them up first. Perfectly fair. > Therefore, if you are still around, still have some interest in the > project, and have a few spare cycles you could allocate for this task, > I would really appreciate if you could go through the questions I > asked back then, and enlighten me. It turns out I never even archived the messages, so I can easily go through them from my (rather bloated) inbox and see if we can get some photons flowing. I'll start on that momentarily. Regards, Branden
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