On 03/01/2016 09:05 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Jens Reyer jre.winesim@gmail.com:
On 02/29/2016 12:35 PM, esr@thyrsus.com wrote:
This is automatically generated email about markup problems in a man page for which you appear to be responsible. If you are not the right person or list, please tell me so I can correct my database.
See http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter/bugs.html for details on how and why these patches were generated. Feel free to email me with any questions. Note: These patches do not change the modification date of any manual page. You may wish to do that by hand.
I apologize if this message seems spammy or impersonal. The volume of markup bugs I am tracking is over five hundred - there is no real alternative to generating bugmail from a database and template.
-- Eric S. Raymond
Hi Eric,
the Wine project usually expects "git format-patch"-patches at wine-patches@winehq.org (subscribers only), see https://wiki.winehq.org/Submitting_Patches.
Greets jre
You clearly don't understand the implications of what you're asking.
I'm trying to get the *entire* manual page corpus cleaned up to the point where it can easily be HTMLized and cross-indexed. It's a huge job; I've been plugging at it for twelve years. I'm tracking over 500 man-page bugs on hundreds of separate projects and have 327 patches pending.
I don't have the time or bandwidth to become a mailing-list subscriber and adapt to every single local set of submission conventions. This work is nearly too difficult for a single human as it is, and nobody else is signing up to do it.
It's as much as I can do to provide fixes. I need project maintainers to be helpful and take responsibility for doing the mechanics of applying them, or I won't be able to get this done at all.
I fully understand your situation. I am not the maintainer, just a contributor.
Your inital mail might not have been seen at all, however chances are higher with this thread now.
AJ, I might resubmit that for Eric if that helps.
Greets jre