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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706082044430.3570@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 20:45:34 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@....net>
cc: Gerhard Mack <gmack@...erfire.net>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: man-pages-2.54 is released
On Jun 8 2007 18:03, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Release Philosophy
> ==================
>
> If you make sweeping *formatting* changes on a large number of
> pages, separate them out into their own release that contains
> minimal *content* changes. This makes it easier for the people
> that want to verify content changes independently of the change
> log. Yes, some people actually diff each release to see what
> changed; for example, downstream maintainers, and translators of
> the man pages (such as the dedicated Alain Portal, in recent
> times) sometimes like to do this.
I think that sounds more like a repository (svn/git) philosophy
than a release philosophy.
Jan
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