Re: [bug #51440] [PATCH] groff_diff.7.man: Fix splitting of lines in bug #51327

[Ingo Schwarze]

Hi Bjarni,

Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote on Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 07:16:54PM -0400:

> I just recently began to use and learn "git".

Shouldn't be a problem as you are not (yet) committing yourself.

> except sparing a new ticket.

Minimizing the number of tickets is quite important.  Too many tickets
are the main reason why bugtrackers often become hard to use in practice.
It there are few tickets - in particular few open tickets - it is very
easy to find out whether something was already reported, and what should
reasonably be done next.  With many tickets, you need search functionality
to do anything, which is much harder.

Besides, every ticket ecventually needs to be closed by someone,
and the groff project suffers from an extreme shortage of of
manpower.  Minimizing the workload for committers is important.

>   Maybe providing the correct patch as a comment to the first one
> would have been the best bet.

For example.

>   The escape '\c' is an old one, so I assume you mean the use of '.itc'
> in the macro 'TP'.

Exactly.  \c is portable, but .itc is groff only, and hoping that .TP
uses .itc even fails with the latest releases of groff and mandoc.
It only works for people who compile themselves from source or who
run OpenBSD-current.

Yours,
  Ingo