man pages - was: wiki vs documentation

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph wrote:
> Little Girl wrote:

> > Where are the man pages kept?
 
> They are all published and searchable here:
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/

Thanks!
 
> > Are there guidelines for how they should be constructed?

> > Can any of us edit them? I wouldn't mind going to town on some of
> > them. (:
 
> Man pages are typically written by the upstream software project and
> then just included in the packages we ship with Ubuntu. As such, any
> edits of them should probably be done upstream rather than patching
> the Ubuntu packages with our own additions, unless they are
> Ubuntu-specific changes that we're looking to document.

That pretty well leaves me out, then, since I don't want to join a
bunch of projects upstream. ):

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Little Girl

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