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Date:      Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:42:56 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/calendar calendar.1
Message-ID:  <20011001184256.A31215@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011001120308.B7304@sunbay.com>; from ru@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 12:03:08PM %2B0300
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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.

> 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.

> 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.

Greg
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