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Date:      Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:02:34 +0100
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, Ana Kukec <anchie@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r211501 - in head/sys: modules modules/send netinet netinet6 sys
Message-ID:  <BA312DC6-878D-440F-95C6-4E8F50F75802@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C701901.8030505@FreeBSD.org>
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On 21 Aug 2010, at 19:20, Doug Barton wrote:

> On 08/21/2010 05:07, Rui Paulo wrote:
>>> Meanwhile, the fact that in the past code has been committed
>>> without man pages is the exact cause of the problem you're
>>> describing. It is certainly not a justification for continuing to
>>> do it wrong.
>>=20
>> Reverting code just because it doesn't have a man page is pointless.
>> Everyone can write the damn man page, but not everyone can write
>> code. You should really take this into consideration when proposing a
>> commit to be reverted.
>=20
> So let's assume that having lots of code in the tree without a man =
page is a problem. Further, let's assume that we don't want the problem =
to get worse. How do you propose that we accomplish that?

By writing man pages...?

Like I said, everyone can write a man page.. I did write man pages for =
stuff that hasn't had a man page for years (ctfmerge, ctfconvert, etc.).

Regards,
--
Rui Paulo





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