I've landed my flying saucer on this particular White House lawn because I think your documentation needs some fixing. I have no designs on your <strikeout>Earth females</strikeout>source code, I'd just like to get write access to your repo long enough to fix a large number of small documentation-markup problems. Then I'll happily tootle off to another solar system and leave you to your Mr. Kangaroo reruns.
Explanation: I've written a tool called "doclifter" that lifts manual pages to XML-Docbook. It's gotten good enough at the job that the most efficient way for me to handle the 4% of cases where it still throws errors and warnings is to go to individual projects that ship lots of problematic pages and clean them up. I did netpbm a couple weeks ago and I'm working on groff now; the X documentation is probably next after you guys. Yes, normally I would do this sort of thing by pushing patches through your tracker or mailing list. But a few projects, like yours, need lots and lots of little patches that I know are really annoying and boring to review. It saves hassle and everybody's time (including mine) if I can just go in and fix things. (I think I may have sent a couple of patches here in the past. If I did, the reason I've showed up in person is because my validator is turning up a lot of warnings it did not formerly -- things like attenmpts to use .ta and .ti in laying out code examples.) Besides liftability to DocBook, your benefit from letting me do this is that it will fix a lot of little things that may result in bad page rendering by non-groff viewers like the GNOME yelp program and KDE help center. You could opt to learn <strikeout>alien star drive technology</strikeout> how to migrate your masters to DocBook and set up your build'n'ship machinery to make both man pages and web pages from those. A lot of advanced <strikeout>species</strikeout> projects are doing that these days; I can show you how, I've got the plans stashed inside my giant robot sidekick right here.... It's all part of my master plan for <strikeout>galactic conquest</strikeout> a better open-source documentation infrastructure. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list Net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders