Re: man-pages maintainership (was: Re: [PATCH v2] madvise.2: Clarify addr/length and update hugetlb support)

[David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>]

On 07.06.22 11:37, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> On 6/7/22 09:44, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> Ah, that explains things. The man-page info page [1] was/is still
>> pointing at that git tree, that's why I wondered what happened.
> 
> Yup.  BTW, that reminds me I need to ask how to update that website. 
> Now that everything goes back to normal, I don't need to; but still 
> should know how to.
> 
>>>> I'm not very concerned about this, since in essence, a fork of the
>>>> manual pages is still very well maintained on my server, and free for
>>>> anyone interested in reading up-to-date pages.  And since I do this on a
>>>> hobby basis (my company doesn't pay me to do this at all), I don't care
>>>> at all about not having released in almost a year now.  That's more of a
>>>> problem for distros and companies, which need releases.  For
>>
>> Heh, including me ;)
> 
> Which part of that text includes you?  "interested in reading up-to-date 
> pages"?  Or "need releases"?  Or both?  :-)

A little bit of everything. Obviously, I'm interested in up-to-date man
pages for Red Hat Linux users :)

>>
>>>
>>> BTW, I just released a signed git tag in my repo, to make it a bit more
>>> secure to know that you're getting my manual pages, and not some MITM
>>> fake stuff.
>>>
>>> <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/tag/?h=man-pages-5.19-rc1>
>>>
>>> My PGP key is signed by mtk.  Only trust it if it has his signature.
>>> I'm attaching it in this email, so that it can be found in the list (I'm
>>> having some issue with the keyserver).
>>
>> I can spot it on the official git tree [2] as well, essentially via
>> alx/main. Nice.
> 
> Yes, and soon in master. :)
> Still far from a release, however; I need help with that.

What kind of help would you be needing?

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb