Man page website

[Kevin Fenzi]

> Hey Kevin,
> 
> I hope it's acceptable to contact you in this way.  I don't like
> resorting to name dropping to prove a point, but your insight would
> be a valuable counter to my relatively ineffective musings.
> 
> Would you please comment on this thread?

Sure. I was not subscribed, so hopefully I have the references ok. 

My thoughts: 

I think pursuing expanding the packages application to handle man
pages as well would be the best way forward right now.  It already
pulls out icons from packages, so I am hoping it wouldn't be too hard
to it to also look for man pages and display them somehow. Then we not
only have them, but they are up to date, searchable and can leverage an
existing setup. 

Failing that, I am really worried about any solution that is "a bunch
of shell scripts" that manipulates all 12,000 of our packages. That's
the sort of solution that someone gets working with duct tape and
bailing wire and then disappears and Fedora Infrastructure is left
trying to keep it working. ;) If we do want to move forward on that
path, please see: 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Request_For_Resources
and
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Request_for_resources_SOP

Which is a process that would make sure we have a group of people
working on it, there's plans and known resource usage, etc.

kevin
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