GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 757151
Missing man page for notify-send
Last modified: 2020-11-26 15:31:07 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).
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.
@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.
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.
Thank you. Please provide a proper patch so we can review and merge it.
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.
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
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