[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#488609: rt man page

[Trent W. Buck]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:54:22PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Thanks for your proposed contribution to the rt man page. It certainly
> would be nice to have something like this merged. However, I'm uneasy
> about adding this now as a future maintenance burden; at the moment the
> manpage is a general overview with a pointer on how to get specific
> information, but adding the detailed help runs the real risk of things
> becoming out of date.

Understood; it's your call.  I won't be providing updates anytime
soon, since I no longer use request tracker.

> I suspect the best thing to do really would be to get upstream to include
> POD documentation (which is, incidentally, how the current docs are
> maintained).

Ah; last time I looked (3.8) upstream didn't use POD, but rather some
NIH approximation of it.  Obviously getting them to convert to POD
would be nice, but they might be averse to that if it involves a
run-time dependency on POD (e.g. for "rt --help"), due to

  # This program is intentionally written to have as few non-core module
  # dependencies as possible. It should stay that way.