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Bug 757151 - Missing man page for notify-send
Missing man page for notify-send
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: libnotify
Classification: Platform
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: libnotify-maint
libnotify-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-10-26 18:30 UTC by Daniel Hahler
Modified: 2020-11-26 15:31 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Man page for notify-send from Debian (1.35 KB, text/plain)
2015-10-26 18:30 UTC, Daniel Hahler
Details

Description Daniel Hahler 2015-10-26 18:30:40 UTC
Created attachment 314152 [details]
Man page for notify-send from Debian

Debian ships a man page that could be used / adopted upstream.

From https://packages.debian.org/sid/libnotify-bin (http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libn/libnotify/libnotify_0.7.6-2.debian.tar.xz).
Comment 1 c.buhtz 2017-07-22 22:08:16 UTC
What is the status of that bug?

IMO it is unpolite to ship a package without manpage and "ask" each package maintainer of each distro that use your software to write her/his own manpage.

So know you have one (from Debian). Please transform this to "upstream" and don't waste the work of the debian people who wrote that manpage.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2017-07-23 20:49:43 UTC
@c.buhtz: See above "Status: NEW". The proposed change has not been reviewed or merged yet, probably because libnotify isn't very actively maintained in these days and nobody has provided a git-formatted patch yet (which would be the next step). See https://wiki.gnome.org/Git/Developers#Contributing_patches for the next step.
Comment 3 c.buhtz 2017-07-25 09:42:55 UTC
The Debian people did some of your work! Manpages and docu is up to upstream escpecially to the person who implemented a new feature. Who accepted e.g. the "-a" feature as code? This should have never be accepted without documentation.
A feature without documentation is always a bug! Am I to old? Isn't that basic rule valid today?!

The problem is the process or the priority of the project - not the ressources. Gnome should rearrange some time/people ressources and invest it in documentation and checking new code for its documentation and take new developoers by their hand and show them why and how to do documentation.

I find it impolite. The manpage is there - two years! Just say thank you to Debian and merge it. If the package is not maintained - drop it without excuses.

Keep in mind that this attidute of the project has an effect on possible new contributers.
Comment 4 André Klapper 2017-07-31 15:17:09 UTC
Thank you. Please provide a proper patch so we can review and merge it.
Comment 5 c.buhtz 2017-08-03 12:20:44 UTC
This would be waste of ressources. The work should be done by the person who implemented and knew the feauters. This would be the quickest way.
Comment 6 André Klapper 2017-08-03 16:44:55 UTC
Well, you cannot waste resources if there are none? :)

> Gnome should rearrange some time/people ressources and invest it in

There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding how free software projects work. As if someone was in a position to tell someone else what to work on.

> documentation and checking new code for its documentation and take new
> developoers by their hand and show them why and how to do documentation.

Your contribution is welcome: https://wiki.gnome.org/DocumentationProject
Comment 7 André Klapper 2020-11-26 15:31:07 UTC
bugzilla.gnome.org is being replaced by gitlab.gnome.org. We are closing all
older bug reports and feature requests in GNOME Bugzilla which have not seen
updates for a while.

If you still use libnotify and if you still see this bug / want this feature in a recent and currently supported version, then please feel free to report it at
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libnotify/-/issues/
by following the guidelines at
https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines

Thank you for creating this report and we are sorry it could not be implemented
so far (volunteer workforce and time is limited).