linux-kernel - Re: man-pages-6.17 released

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Message-ID: <aYzXZwCGZINWZBVQ@devuan>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:33:44 +0100
From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@...nel.org>
To: linux-man@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, libc-alpha@...rceware.org
Subject: Re: man-pages-6.17 released

Hi,

On 2026-02-11T18:57:19+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
[...]
> Global changes
> --------------
> 
> -  CONSTRIBUTING.d/
>    -  Add guidelines banning AI for contributing.

Oh, and possibly overlooked in the release announcement: no AI.

We have a strong policy regarding use of AI in the project.
See <CONTRIBUTING.d/ai> for more details, but in short: no AI.

>    -  Document guidelines about In-Reply-To: header field.
>    -  Document guidelines about Fixes: trailed field.

And this is also interesting to other projects.  We "standardized"
a unambiguous machine-parseable format for 'Fixes:' trailer fields that
is resistant to collisions.  See <CONTRIBUTING.d/patches/trailer> and
<CONTRIBUTING.d/git>, and also the commit
a8aa0eaf6bad (2026-02-08; "CONTRIBUTING.d/: Document format of 'Fixes:' trailer fields"),
which address the concerns from <https://lwn.net/Articles/1003797/>.

Cheers,
Alex

> -  README.d/
>    -  Document dependencies of the project.
> -  share/mk/
>    -  Add help-list-* targets.
> -  man/
>    -  HISTORY, STANDARDS
>       -  Document new and old standards with precision.
> -  src/bin/
>    -  grepc, grepc_c, grepc_mk
>       Add new scripts to inspect C source code.
> -  */
>    -  Restore some old copyright notices.
> 
> 
> Changes to individual files
> ---------------------------
> 
> The manual pages and other files in the repository have been improved
> beyond what this changelog covers.  To learn more about changes applied
> to individual pages, or the authors of changes, use git(1).
> 
> -- 
> <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es>

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