On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 18:30:16 +1000 Alexis <flexibe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all, > > i recently started using 66 instead of runit on Void - thanks to > @Obarun, @mobinmob and @teldra for their work and help! You're welcome. Thank at you to use 66. > Consequently, and further to > https://www.mail-archive.com/supervision@list.skarnet.org/msg02278.html > : > > > if people like man pages, they should have man pages, so it's > > been a > > few years that I have appealed to the community for this ... I > > want > > s6 to be accessible, but I figure that if people really wanted > > man > > pages, they'd write man pages > > i've spent the last couple of weeks porting the s6 documentation > to mdoc(7) format: > > https://github.com/flexibeast/s6-man-pages > > since i really want man pages, and much prefer them to HTML for > system-level software. :-) > > i don't consider the current state of the repo to be 'ready' in a > general sense, but i do feel it's mostly done, and certainly > amenable to review. i think this might be a good time to give > myself a short break from working on it, so i can then come back > and do a review pass with fresher eyes. > > The porting has been done manually, with no automation involved; > this has allowed me to use semantic markup as much as possible, > which of course also facilitates searching for content with > `apropos(1)`. > > Several things to note: > > * i've changed page layouts to fit mdoc(7) conventions. > > * During the porting process, i developed ideas about what might > be the best way to do things, so documentation ported earlier > might not follow the same style as the documentation ported more > recently. This is something i hope to check in my review pass. > > * There are currently no cross-references to the execline suite or > skalibs. However, i'm willing to port that documentation as > well, together with the s6-rc documentation. > > * Inline links to things such as djb's software are not yet > included. The `Lk` macro allows one to supply link text as well > as the URL, but the resulting output would require changes to > the text to make it read satisfactorily. Regardless, i can add > the relevant links in "SEE ALSO" sections. > > * i've corrected a number of typos and grammatical issues, and > discovered what i believe might be couple of errors: > > * s6-softlimit: The "Options" section refers to "-r allmem" > rather than "-r res". > > * s6-ftrig-listen: The "Options" section says: "By default, > s6-ftrig-listen1 waits indefinitely for a matching series of > events." Given the context, i presume this should be > "s6-ftrig-listen"? > > That said, although i've tried to be careful, i might have > introduced new errors, or made mistakes in my choice of macros, so > proofreading would be appreciated. :-) > > > Alexis. This is really a hard job to do. Many thanks to make it. A lot of user will appreciate it. Well, i'm not really good at English, so my help will not be usefull about grammatical issues. But i will do some publicizes about your work that be visible by user. -- eric vidal <e...@obarun.org>