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    man-pages is supported · c76a5878
    Michael Kerrisk authored
    
    
    Starting last month, I reached a long-time goal: man-pages finally has a
    paid, full-time maintainer, thanks to a fellowship from the Linux
    Foundation.  It's still a little unclear how long the LF money will last
    for the fellowship, but for the foreseeable future, I'll be working on:
    
    * Properly documenting every new Linux kernel-userland (and glibc) API,
      and every API change, that is released into the mainline kernel, ideally
      before actual release.  (That's the ideal, but there's a quite a
      backlog, so I'm not going to achieve the ideal immediately.)
    
    * Testing new APIs, again ideally before they are released into the
      mainline kernel, and probably doing some light bug fixing while I'm at
      it (e.g., the recent utimensat() work).
    
    * Design review of new APIs, which of course can only usefully be done
      before they are released into the mainline kernel.
    
    * And of course accepting patches and dealing with bug reports for
      existing man pages.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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