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Re: RFC: manual/contrib.texi


On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> wrote:
> On 05/16/2012 10:15 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>>
>> I don't think personal addresses should be listed as contacts.
>> People can just file bugs in the manual component like for anything else.
>>
>> Either everybody's name needs @w or noone's does.
>>
>> For people with long lists, I think an @itemize @bullet with terse
>> item descriptions would be better than an awkwardly-worded paragraph.
>> i.e.:
>>
>> Ulrich Drepper for his many contributions in almost all parts of
>> @theglibc{}, including:
>> @itemize @bullet
>> @item internationalization support, including the @code{locale} and
>> @code{localedef} utilities.
>> @item Linux i386/ELF support
>> ...
>> @end itemize
>
>
> I've made those changes.
>
> I've also added a couple of people that were not in the list. Here's a
> version that still could use many enhancements, e.g. adding an entry for
> everybody with commit access according to
> http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MAINTAINERS.
>
> Please send me your comments - both on the overall structure as well as on
> single entries and language/grammar.
>
> I'm appending a complete file again,

This is an excellent step forward!

I will let other pick nits over language/grammar, but I'd check it in
as-is and call it forward progress.

I'm very happy with the substantive changes.

Cheers,
Carlos.


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