Re: rc3: groff man pages truncated by mandoc(1)

[Alexis]

"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> writes:

> Thank you very much for raising this issue before the final 
> release;
> this is an important matter that needs to be warned about in the
> announcement.

You're welcome!

> If you'd like to share your/a surname, I can credit you by your 
> full
> name as a contributor in the release announcement (as you saw in 
> the
> rc3
> email).  By bringing this matter to my attention, you have 
> spared me
> embarrassment.[1 again]  Otherwise, like Gene in the same 
> credits, you
> can remain mononymous, if potentially ambiguous.  :)

Happy to remain mononymous in this case - thank you. :-)

>     I _hate_ working under deadline pressure.  You may see why I 
>     try to
>     avoid doing so.  This is why I would prefer to have someone 
>     else
>     serving as groff release engineer who can say, "it's good 
>     enough to
>     ship".  They can catch me in a lull, not a frenzy.  And I 
>     will
>     seldom feel frenzied if I don't have to meet a deadline.

i'm in no position to criticise in this regard. Even though i was 
only operating under exhaustion rather than a deadline, on Sunday 
i updated my man page ports of s6 ecosystem documentation, and not 
only managed to tag releases without crucial Makefile changes, but 
also amended the commits instead of tagging new releases. :-/ 
Release process checklist updated. :-P


Alexis.