Bug#1052265: ldap.conf.5: some remarks and editorial changes for this man page

Bjarni Ingi Gislason bjarniig at simnet.is
Wed Sep 27 00:58:03 BST 2023


On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 10:03:02AM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Monday, September 25, 2023 8:59 AM -0700 Ryan Tandy <ryan at nardis.ca>
> wrote:
> 
> > Control: tag -1 moreinfo
> > 
> > Hello Bjarni, thank you for your contribution.
> > 
> > The man page is maintained upstream. May I ask you to submit your changes
> > directly to the OpenLDAP project? (It's better if you can do so yourself,
> > than if I do it on your behalf.)
> > 
> > There is a guide for contributors:
> > <https://openldap.org/devel/contributing.html>. They will probably ask
> > you to format your patch as unified diff (diff -u) or a git branch.
> 
> General best practice at the moment is to:
> 
> a) Open a bug in the OpenLDAP bugzilla: https://bugs.openldap.org
> 
> b) sign up for an account on the openldap gitlab instance
> https://git.openldap.org, fork the openldap repo to your own user, and then
> submit a PR with the change.
> 
> Regards,
> Quanah
> 
> 
  Thanks for the tips.

  I find this to be too much extra work for probably a one time
involvement.

  The simplest solution is to just forward my remarks to upstream as
these are only suggestions.



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