[arch-dev-public] News draft: Manual pages indexing service

Sven-Hendrik Haase svenstaro at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 23:18:26 UTC 2021



On 13.01.21 00:12, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> lahwaacz made a service for collecting and displaying manpages from our 
> packages that we now operate at man.archlinux.org.
> 
> I believe this is news-post worthy.
> 
> ---
> Title: man.archlinux.org is live
> 
> We are happy to announce our newest public service: A manual pages 
> indexing site at [man.archlinux.org](https://man.archlinux.org) that 
> publishes all man pages of all our packages and allows you to 
> [search](https://man.archlinux.org/search) and 
> [browse](https://man.archlinux.org/listing) them. Check out, for 
> example, the [man page of 
> tar](https://man.archlinux.org/man/core/tar/tar.1.en).
> 
> You can also find a link to this service in our sidebar. Thanks to Wiki 
> Admin [lahwaacz](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Lahwaacz) for 
> developing 
> [archmanweb](https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archmanweb) for this 
> purpose.
> 
> While there are other man page indexing sites out there, it is our hope 
> that publishing man pages that match the version of our released 
> packages makes Arch more accessible and that it improves our 
> documentation even further.
> ---
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> Sven
> 

Typo'd. I wanted to write:

"that publishes the man pages of all our packages and allows you to"


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