Problems in winedbg.1, msiexec.1, winemaker.1

[Jens Reyer]

On 03/01/2016 09:05 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Jens Reyer <jre.winesim at gmail.com>:
>> On 02/29/2016 12:35 PM, esr at thyrsus.com wrote:
>>> This is automatically generated email about markup problems in a man
>>> page for which you appear to be responsible.  If you are not the right
>>> person or list, please tell me so I can correct my database.
>>>
>>> See http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter/bugs.html for details on how and
>>> why these patches were generated.  Feel free to email me with any
>>> questions.  Note: These patches do not change the modification date of
>>> any manual page.  You may wish to do that by hand.
>>>
>>> I apologize if this message seems spammy or impersonal. The volume of
>>> markup bugs I am tracking is over five hundred - there is no real
>>> alternative to generating bugmail from a database and template.
>>>
>>> --
>>>                              Eric S. Raymond
>>
>>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> the Wine project usually expects "git format-patch"-patches at
>> wine-patches at winehq.org (subscribers only), see
>> https://wiki.winehq.org/Submitting_Patches.
>>
>> Greets
>> jre
> 
> You clearly don't understand the implications of what you're asking.
> 
> I'm trying to get the *entire* manual page corpus cleaned up to the
> point where it can easily be HTMLized and cross-indexed. It's a huge
> job; I've been plugging at it for twelve years. I'm tracking over 500
> man-page bugs on hundreds of separate projects and have 327 patches
> pending.
> 
> I don't have the time or bandwidth to become a mailing-list subscriber
> and adapt to every single local set of submission conventions. This
> work is nearly too difficult for a single human as it is, and nobody
> else is signing up to do it.
> 
> It's as much as I can do to provide fixes. I need project maintainers
> to be helpful and take responsibility for doing the mechanics of
> applying them, or I won't be able to get this done at all.


I fully understand your situation. I am not the maintainer, just a
contributor.

Your inital mail might not have been seen at all, however chances are
higher with this thread now.

AJ, I might resubmit that for Eric if that helps.

Greets
jre