-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2009-02-09 at 17:32 +0100, anicka@suse.cz wrote:
Czech Packagers Meeting minutes 2009-02-03 ... (1) Missing Manpages ====================
As an internal discussion shows, most of the developers generally agree that policy of having manpage for every executable would bring us benefits. There are several different ways how to do it: We could profit on the fact that Debian has similar policy for ages and their manpages are usually written in a very good quality. But we would have to find a way how to keep our different versions of packages in sync with these manpages. We could also generate very simple manpages containing just a link to the proper documention using ie. help2man.
We think that as for packages with upstream reluctant to take care for manpages, common repository for all the distributors would be a great help.
And of course, executables might be just a first step - it would be very convenient to have a manpage containing useful information for every config file, or, especially, for every init script.
You could consider whether translating manpages is interesting or not. Many pages are not translated, or the translation is obsolete and wrong. As a translator, I can tell you that it is quite difficult (for me) to translate a manpage, because there is no useful manpage writing program - ie, one that does not require the writer to be a programmer. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmU2rgACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WfPACggpytJJSdK+JkMn8fXVUQfmCC P3QAniaiv2gO/1mi29s6MM3EBVuT9Tdv =BdvW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org