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Old 23rd December 2014
ibara ibara is offline
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I would not bet on it If people cared so much about man pages and their Handbook/Guide they would update those for every major release. In my experience OpenBSD is the only project which consider lack of documentation a bug.
I wouldn't be so sure about this. FreeBSD at least pays lip service to the necessity of correct documentation through the division of labor of their developer team: one has a src, ports, or doc commit bit (of course, one can have multiple).

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There are many cool pkgsrc features for example that are not documented even though pkgsrc has pretty extensive documentation. Another thing is who is actually allowed to update documentation.
(Perhaps you should send something then.)

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You can be sending patches all they long if the developer with commit access doesn't react or she/he thinks that there is nothing wrong with the documentation.
This is not an excuse for not sending patches.
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