From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 18 17:46: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6EFF37B400; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:46:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD3F43E5E; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:46:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g6J0jnOo016374; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:45:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:45:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Paul Richards Cc: Terry Lambert , Julian Elischer , developers@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd) In-Reply-To: <036201c22ebb$ba08dbe0$fd00000a@prawn> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Paul Richards wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Watson" > To: "Terry Lambert" > Cc: "Julian Elischer" ; ; > > Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 1:18 AM > Subject: Re: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status > Report (fwd) > > > > tags, removal of a necessary tag, etc. If I had to guess, asking for > > nroff/mdoc submissions would result in a slightly higher success rate, as > > I suspect developers have a bit more experience with it, and also don't > > have to install a port to get syntax checking. > > I wonder how true that is these days. The last time I used nroff was for > my masters thesis which was in 1990! Does anyone except man page > maintainers still use it in earnest? You seem to have picked up the Microsoft Outlook quoting style when responding to messages :-). I've seen many base system developers commit man pages, but few commit to the docbook/sgml side of things in the doc project. People whine loudly about using sgml, and whine a lot less about copy-and-pasting a man page. While your assertion is likely true outside the FreeBSD src developer community, I'm pretty sure it's not true inside of it. The FreeBSD src developer community is, after all, a community of people who write software that frequently ships with man pages. Sure, the nroff markup may not be the best, but it's still workable. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message