"Bugs and Enhancement Requests" page ignores GitHub issue tracker

[Chealer]

Less now uses this GitHub tracker to track its issues. Unfortunately, the website's Bugs and Enhancement Requests page only contains a presumably outdated and undetailed list of issues, and does not mention this tracker. This creates a perception of lack of maintenance and reliability.

Please either replace the link with a link to the current tracker, or at least add a link to the current tracker from the page.

[gwsw]

How did you reach that page? As far as I know, all the links accessible from the main page https://greenwoodsoftware.com/less point to the github tracker, not to the obsolete bugs.html page.

[Chealer]

Aaah, sorry and thank you very much @gwsw . I did reach it from an outdated manpage, which the English Wikipedia's article points to.

I removed the oudated link from the French Wikipedia. That being said, the page could still be removed or at least link to the current tracker.

[gwsw]

I have added a note to the page indicating that it is obsolete, with a link to the github bug tracker.

[Chealer]

Thanks again @gwsw

[ferdnyc]

I've updated the English Wikipedia article to (always) point to the version of the man page for the current FreeBSD release. (When created it had been pinned on FreeBSD 9.0, which is now over 10 years old.)

[piotr-dobrogost]

I think it would be better to link to man7's project man page for less.

For comparison:
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=less has a man page for Version 608: 22 Jul 2022
whereas
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/less.1.html has a man page for Version 633: 03 May 2023

ps.
Having cgi in the url was cool about 30 years ago… :D

[ferdnyc]

@piotr-dobrogost

Well, that's the thing. AFAIK, "man7's project man page" isn't so much a project, it's just Michael Kerrisk's personal site (see https://man7.org/), that happens to include HTML-ified versions of common man pages. (Because he used to maintain the linux man-pages tree — he actually stepped down in 2021.) Those pages are generated from... some source? (Presumably some distro, maybe?) The actual man-pages project page is https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/, but that doesn't include any man pages in web-viewable form.

I'm not sure it's fair to Kerrisk, to point Wikipedia-level traffic at his personal website. Nor am I sure Wikipedia is likely to consider the personal website of a former Linux kernel tree maintainer to be an authoritative source. Not in comparison to the FreeBSD project site, anyway.

[ferdnyc]

In the end, it's an encyclopedia. If you need it to contain or link to current, up-to-the-minute information, you're doing it wrong.