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Date:      Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:41:56 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/calendar calendar.1
Message-ID:  <20011001124156.A13331@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011001184256.A31215@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:42:56PM %2B0930
References:  <200110010235.f912ZqW96382@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011001100857.F91045@sunbay.com> <20011001174710.W31215@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20011001112916.H91045@sunbay.com> <20011001180443.X31215@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20011001114153.A4250@sunbay.com> <20011001182729.Y31215@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20011001120308.B7304@sunbay.com> <20011001184256.A31215@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:42:56PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Monday,  1 October 2001 at 12:03:08 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:27:29PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >> On Monday,  1 October 2001 at 11:41:53 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:04:43PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >>>> On Monday,  1 October 2001 at 11:29:16 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 05:47:10PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >>>>>> On Monday,  1 October 2001 at 10:08:57 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 07:35:52PM -0700, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >>>>>>>> grog        2001/09/30 19:35:52 PDT
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>   Modified files:
> >>>>>>>>     usr.bin/calendar     calendar.1
> >>>>>>>>   Log:
> >>>>>>>>   Add description for calendar.freebsd.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>   Revision  Changes    Path
> >>>>>>>>   1.23      +3 -1      src/usr.bin/calendar/calendar.1
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Also, you forgot to update document date.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> My understanding was that the document date had nothing to do with
> >>>>>> when it was updated.  Can you state the policy?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> This is from share/examples/mdoc:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> .\" Note: The date here should be updated whenever a non-trivial
> >>>>> .\" change is made to the manual page.
> >>>>
> >>>> This change was trivial.
> >>>>
> >>> I myself consider the following changes trivial: markup and/or spelling
> >>> fixes.  If you change the content, OTOH, e.g. you document new option or
> >>> new functionality, or add a paragpraph about functionality that wasn't
> >>> previously documented, you should bump document date.
> >>>
> >>> Note "should" but not "must".  This is because if you don't do this,
> >>> I will.  :-)
> >>
> >> No, that is contrary to the committer guidelines.  Please don't do
> >> that.
> >>
> >> I am getting thoroughly fed up with your attitude.  You have no
> >> authority to dictate this sort of change.  Sure, you've done a lot of
> >> good grunt-work tidying up the man pages, but things would have been a
> >> lot easier to handle if you didn't try to impose such a policeman-like
> >> attitude, and discussed things instead.  What you personally consider
> >> to be trivial is of no consequence.  We have a docmeister who doesn't
> >> try to throw his weight around, and who hasn't commented on most of
> >> these trivialities.
> >>
> > Note that I replied in private, you turned this into public.
> 
> No, you sent your message to the same forum.  I just did a group
> reply.
> 
Oops, sorry then.  This was intended in private.

> > Well, your right.  So far, you are the only person who doesn't agree
> > on almost every bit of mdoc(7) fixes I made.
> 
> No, that's not correct.  I object to a small number of the changes you
> made.
> 
OK, turning the counter off.  :-)

> > Also, if you don't know, I am the official mdoc(7) maintainer in
> > FreeBSD.
> 
> That doesn't entitle you to override commits which are in dispute.
> 
I was just trying to tell you that if you don't do it, that's no
problem, as I will (can) do it when reviewing recently committed
changes, as I consider it my responsibility to keep mdoc(7) mans
in a good shape.  You took it wrong.


Cheers,
-- 
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