Re: [PATCH 00/23] doc: cleanups and asciidoctor direct man pages

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On 21/06/21 23.30, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > I already sent the first part of this series separately multiple times,
> > the last one is 4 simple obviously correct patches [1], but since the
> > maintainer has admitted he has no problem ignoring valid work
> > entirely due to personal animus [2], I'm sending the whole chain.
> > 
> > There's no point in carefully selecting multiple series of patches to be
> > merged one by one when all of them are going to be ignored. So I'm
> > sending all 3 series at once.
> > 
> > Hopefully by sending it all at once some people will be able to realize
> > that:
> > 
> >   1. They are valid
> >   2. They are helpful
> >   3. They make the code more maintainable
> >   4. They enable new features
> >   5. They enable the new features to be easily tested
> >   6. They reduce the doc-diff of the new feature, as well as others
> >   7. They are superior to the competing series currently in seen
> >   8. They include work of multiple contributors
> > 
> > Any fair and impartial maintainer would attempt to pick them up.
> > 
> > Cheers.
> > 
> 
> I think the next step after this patch series is to add asciidoctor 
> direct man pages generation option to ./configure script (maybe 
> --enable-asciidoctor-manpage?). But before that, we need to add 
> --enable-asciidoctor option, which sets USE_ASCIIDOCTOR=YesPlease.

Maybe. I don't use ./configure, so perhaps somebody that does should
take charge of this.

-- 
Felipe Contreras