[Bug 828669] New: Fedora Project Doesn't Have Online Man Pages Archive

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=828669

Bug ID: 828669
        QA Contact: [e-mail]
          Severity: unspecified
           Version: devel
          Priority: unspecified
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail],
                    [e-mail]
          Assignee: [e-mail]
           Summary: Fedora Project Doesn't Have Online Man Pages Archive
        Regression: ---
      Story Points: ---
    Classification: Fedora
                OS: Unspecified
          Reporter: [e-mail]
              Type: Bug
     Documentation: ---
          Hardware: Unspecified
        Mount Type: ---
            Status: NEW
         Component: docs-requests
           Product: Fedora Documentation

Online Man Pages Archive Examples:
http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/

I tried searching similar stuff for Fedora.
What I saw is the following site:
http://linuxmanpages.net/

Its style is in Fedora flavor.

However:
It contains ADs.
It doesn't have any contact information.
It doesn't have F17 stuff yet.
Its F16 link in homepage is pointing to F15 stuff.

So I think Fedora Project could set up its own online man pages archive.
The domain can be manpages.fedoraproject.org or something.

Thank you in advance.

[Bug 828669] Fedora Project Doesn't Have Online Man Pages Archive

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=828669

--- Comment #1 from Eric Christensen  ---
I'm not sure how feasible this would be.  Fedora doesn't in any way manage the
upstream man pages.  I guess it could be a simple enough task to publish if
there was a simple way to obtain all the man pages for a release.

[Bug 828669] Fedora Project Doesn't Have Online Man Pages Archive

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--- Comment #2 from Eric Christensen  ---
I've added this to the weekly Docs meeting:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_meetings#Agenda_for_Next_Meeting.

[Bug 828669] Fedora Project Doesn't Have Online Man Pages Archive

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Eric Christensen  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX
           Assignee|[e-mail]    |[e-mail]
        Last Closed|                            |2012-06-05 10:28:56

--- Comment #3 from Eric Christensen  ---
The site http://linuxmanpages.net/ is not a part of Fedora.  We've escalated
that part to Legal.

Because Fedora is a collection of upstream projects it isn't very feasible for
us to provide man pages online as there are no good ways to automatically
parse/update this information.  As you have already discovered there are
already several online resources providing this information and since the man
pages are shipped with the source they are immediately available on your
computer when you install the software.

At this time, the Docs Project declines to add this project to our existing
work load.

[Bug 828669] Fedora Project Doesn't Have Online Man Pages Archive

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Jason Brooks  changed:

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                 CC|                            |[e-mail]

--- Comment #4 from Jason Brooks  ---
For reference, Debian has a man pages site like this at
http://manpages.debian.net, the makeup of which is described at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-services-admin/2011/08/msg00003.html.