Funding restored for man-page maintenance
Man pages maintainer Alejandro Colomar announced in September that he was suspendinghis work due to a lack of support. He has now letit be known that funding has been found for the next year at least:
We've been talking for a couple of months, and we have alreadyagreed to sign a contract through the LF [Linux Foundation], wherea number of companies provide the funds for the contract. Thecontract will cover the next 12 months for the agreed amount, andwe should sign it in the following days. Since I've already seen adraft of the contract, and it looks good, I've already startedmaintaining the project again, starting on Nov 1st.