From: Rical Jasan <ricaljasan@pacific.net>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, carlos@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] manual: Add new header and standards annotations.
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 06:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0aef1730-9021-ebe1-71d8-bf9f7e66c3e9@pacific.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1702081345590.10074@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On 02/08/2017 05:51 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Feb 2017, Rical Jasan wrote:
>
>> I'd envision a v3 containing patches for:
>>
>> 1. Introducing the @standards and related macros.
>> 2. Script(s) to generate the Summary and check annotations.
>> 3. Adding and converting annotations.
>
> I think any conversion to @standards should have the following property:
> there is a patch that changes all existing comment-based annotations to
> @standards-based annotations, leaving the generated summary and the whole
> of the formatted manuals unchanged after the patch. That patch should
> contain a small manually written patch (adapting the summary-generation
> script to read @standards instead of comments, adding dummy definitions of
> @standards macros), a script that does the conversion (which of course
> wouldn't be committed, just the results of running it would be), and a
> large purely automatically generated set of changes made by the conversion
> script.
>
> That is, there must not be an "Adding and converting annotations." patch;
> the automated conversion must be clearly separated from any patch that
> actually changes or adds any annotations to the manual. (This does not
> assert whether such changes and additions happen before or after the
> conversion.)
I am currently working on this, though it may take a little while with
my schedule. I have the basics of the conversion script in place so
far, and am hunting down all the exceptions.
Rical
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-12 6:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-06 10:55 [PATCH v2 0/5] Header & Standards Cleanup Rical Jasan
2016-12-06 10:55 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] manual: Refactor header and standards annotations Rical Jasan
2016-12-06 13:49 ` Zack Weinberg
2016-12-06 15:33 ` Joseph Myers
2016-12-19 10:37 ` Rical Jasan
2016-12-19 13:48 ` Joseph Myers
2017-02-07 6:46 ` Rical Jasan
2016-12-06 10:55 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] manual: Convert @tables of variables to @vtables Rical Jasan
2016-12-06 13:50 ` Zack Weinberg
2016-12-06 15:46 ` Joseph Myers
2016-12-07 15:18 ` Nix
2016-12-08 1:38 ` Rical Jasan
2016-12-21 10:08 ` Rical Jasan
2016-12-21 12:42 ` Joseph Myers
2016-12-06 10:55 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] manual: Enforce header and standard requirements Rical Jasan
2016-12-06 10:56 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] manual: Add new header and standards annotations Rical Jasan
2016-12-06 13:23 ` Zack Weinberg
2016-12-06 14:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-12-06 16:24 ` Joseph Myers
2016-12-06 19:23 ` Zack Weinberg
2016-12-06 21:42 ` Joseph Myers
2016-12-07 16:32 ` Joseph Myers
2016-12-08 2:56 ` Rical Jasan
2016-12-08 14:02 ` Joseph Myers
2016-12-12 9:01 ` Rical Jasan
2016-12-14 18:18 ` Joseph Myers
2016-12-14 23:30 ` Rical Jasan
2016-12-15 9:58 ` Rical Jasan
2016-12-15 13:01 ` Joseph Myers
2017-02-07 5:13 ` Rical Jasan
2017-02-07 16:41 ` Joseph Myers
2017-02-08 8:50 ` Rical Jasan
2017-02-08 13:52 ` Joseph Myers
2017-02-12 6:01 ` Rical Jasan [this message]
2017-04-04 3:58 ` Rical Jasan
2017-04-04 11:26 ` Joseph Myers
2017-04-05 3:08 ` Rical Jasan
2017-06-16 13:40 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-06-16 8:28 ` Rical Jasan
2016-12-06 11:42 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] manual: Clean up miscellaneous standards Rical Jasan
2017-05-16 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] manual: Header & Standards Cleanup Rical Jasan
2017-05-16 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] manual: Create empty placeholder macros for @standards Rical Jasan
2017-05-16 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] manual: Provide one-off standards conversion script Rical Jasan
2017-05-16 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] manual: Fix up invalid header and standards syntax Rical Jasan
2017-05-16 11:51 ` Joseph Myers
2017-05-17 4:49 ` Rical Jasan
2017-05-17 10:03 ` Joseph Myers
2017-05-18 8:10 ` Rical Jasan
2017-05-16 10:27 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] manual: Replace summary.awk with summary.pl Rical Jasan
2017-05-16 10:28 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] manual: Convert @tables of annotated @items to @vtables Rical Jasan
2017-05-16 11:53 ` Joseph Myers
2017-05-18 8:11 ` Rical Jasan
2017-05-16 10:28 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] manual: Convert header and standards @comments to @standards Rical Jasan
2017-05-16 10:29 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] manual: Refactor errno @comments Rical Jasan
2017-05-16 11:06 ` Joseph Myers
2017-05-17 4:44 ` Rical Jasan
2017-05-17 13:21 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-05-17 13:31 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-05-18 9:42 ` Rical Jasan
2017-05-18 12:32 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-05-19 9:46 ` Rical Jasan
2017-05-19 20:50 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-05-19 6:20 ` Rical Jasan
2017-05-18 9:58 ` Rical Jasan
2017-05-19 9:33 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] manual: Header & Standards Cleanup Rical Jasan
2017-05-19 9:33 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] manual: Create empty placeholder macros for @standards Rical Jasan
2017-05-19 21:02 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-05-20 6:05 ` Rical Jasan
2017-05-19 9:34 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] manual: Provide one-off standards conversion script Rical Jasan
2017-05-19 9:34 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] manual: Replace summary.awk with summary.pl Rical Jasan
2017-05-19 9:34 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] manual: Convert errno @comments to new @errno macro Rical Jasan
2017-05-19 21:03 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-05-20 6:05 ` Rical Jasan
2017-05-19 9:36 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] manual: Convert header and standards @comments to @standards Rical Jasan
2017-05-19 21:05 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] manual: Header & Standards Cleanup Zack Weinberg
2017-05-22 9:03 ` Rical Jasan
2017-05-24 13:12 ` Rical Jasan
2017-05-24 13:29 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-05-26 5:01 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] " Rical Jasan
2017-05-26 5:01 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] manual: Create empty placeholder macros for @standards Rical Jasan
2017-05-26 5:01 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] manual: Convert header and standards @comments to @standards Rical Jasan
2017-05-26 5:01 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] manual: Replace summary.awk with summary.pl Rical Jasan
2017-05-26 5:01 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] manual: Header & Standards Cleanup [conversion script] Rical Jasan
2017-05-31 9:23 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] manual: Header & Standards Cleanup Rical Jasan
2017-06-08 11:46 ` [PING] " Rical Jasan
2017-06-08 13:41 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-06-09 2:31 ` Rical Jasan
2017-06-15 8:47 ` Rical Jasan
2017-06-15 8:32 ` Rical Jasan
2017-06-15 18:01 ` Joseph Myers
2017-06-16 4:38 ` Rical Jasan
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