Hi all,
Unfortunately i don't think i can continue to maintain the
-man-pages ports of various skaware projects (which i've here
ordered by date of initial commit):
* s6-man-pages
* s6-networking-man-pages
* execline-man-pages
* s6-portable-utils-man-pages
* s6-rc-man-pages
* s6-linux-init-man-pages
* tipidee-man-pages
* shibari-man-pages
i've had chronic illness (ME/CFS) for decades, but this year has
turned out to be an annus horribilis on top of that.
Just before New Year, i developed a severe headache that just
wouldn't go away. A couple of weeks and a brief hospital stay
later, i was diagnosed as having had an arterial
dissection. Fortunately we found some pain meds to ease the pain,
but there was nothing to be done except wait for it to heal.
Not long after that, i got COVID for the first time (!).
Not long after _that_, i developed severe back pain that kept
getting worse, resulting in me being admitted to hospital. Several
months later, i've been diagnosed with spondylolisthesis, and told
there's basically nothing more they can do medically; i just have
to learn to live with it. There are days when i can barely move
due to the pain.
It's in this context that i've kept hoping i'd get to the updates
required by Laurent's latest releases. But it's become apparent
that i'm unlikely to be able to do so in the foreseeable
future. (Though i'm still doing occasional edits on the Gentoo
wiki.)
So: Seeking Maintainer(s). :-) The man pages are written in
mdoc(7) rather than man(7); man(7) is a presentation-based markup
language, but mdoc(7) is semantics-based, which i've found makes
writing man pages easier. i've written a brief introduction to
mdoc(7):
https://github.com/flexibeast/guides/blob/master/mdoc.md
The earlier projects, created when i was still learning mdoc(7)
and coming up with conventions for the ports, probably need more
polishing than the later ones. Ingo Schwarze, the mandoc
maintainer, has given me good advice regarding mdoc(7) usage, but
unfortunately, not all of that advice has been implemented. That
said, the man pages satisfy the mandoc linter, with a few
(conscious) exceptions.
All the repos are on Sourcehut (but some were previously on
GitHub).
Any takers?
Alexis.
Received on Sun Nov 23 2025 - 03:29:08 CET