[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/5] pacman-key: keyring management tool

Guillaume ALAUX guillaume at alaux.net
Sat Sep 18 16:05:07 EDT 2010


On 16 September 2010 17:58, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto
<denisfalqueto at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Guillaume ALAUX
> <guillaume at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Hi Denis, Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm really pleased to see you're back on track.
>
> Hi and thanks for the support :)
>
>>> If any of the collaborators want to help, this is the time
>> I would be glad to.
>> I see you need help to write the man right? Is this the number one
>> task? Because I could also help with some more technical things if
>> needed.
>>
>> Just let me know.
>
> Yeah, right now the man page for pacman-key is the work that needs to
> be done. The script is not very complex, but 1) English is not my
> mother language and 2) I don't have lots of time. My wife is doing an
> internship and my daughter is consuming almost all my free time. But
> if you want to start a draft, I can surely help to develop it.
>
> If you want to discuss the script itself, you are also welcome. When
> the developers start to comment on the other patches, you can also
> help. Or you can start commenting on them right now. Don't be shy :)
>
> --
> A: Because it obfuscates the reading.
> Q: Why is top posting so bad?
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Denis A. Altoe Falqueto
> -------------------------------------------
>
>

Denis,

Silly question: what is the format for "source man pages" for pacman?
Pacman man page has a comment saying it was generated by "DocBook XSL
Stylesheets" but I can't find SGML (nor XML file). Are they plain
text? AsciiDoc?

--
Guillaume


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