[Bug 84151] right and side → right hand side

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84151

--- Comment #5 from Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> ---

(In reply to Dan Jacobson from comment #4)

All I am trying to say is that you need a general bug tracker for such
problems. People will not know that they are supposed to look in various
files to find various names. And indeed posting to that list often meets
with no answer. So do consider a Debian-like policy, where one can
always still post to their bug-tracker, no matter what.

The kernel community is heterogeneous in this respect--some use the bug
tracker, some don't. There is no global (ly enforced) policy. BTSs are of
course not a panacea. I know from my own experience with Debisn that man pages
bug reports sometimes sit there for *years* unattended, sometimes even for
years after I add a note saying the problem is fixed upstream.

The general problem I think is this: Bug Trackers facilitate throwing a problem
to someone else, rather than rolling up your sleeves and getting involved in
the fixing yourself. Yes, we need bug reporters, but the problem is there
aren't enough bug *fixers*. And I think bug reports like this illustrate the
problem quite well. You may say that mails to that list are sometimes ignored,
and I won't disagree, but I think if you sent a well formatted patch to the
list, it'd likely be attended to. For my part, with respect to man-pages, I
explicitly request[1] that people don't use Bugzilla for this kind of report.

Thanks,

Michael

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html

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