Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Wikis
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 17:12:51
Message-Id: 20040821171251.GF12295@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Wikis by Niels Vandekeybus
1 On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:46:48PM +0200, Niels Vandekeybus wrote:
2 > The forums contain a lot of information on topics not even touched by the
3 > gentoo docs, but wading through all the reactions (some threads are 20+
4 > pages long) is a nearly impossible task. A wiki that would get corrected
5 > by the users would surely be easier to read and maintain than a thread.
6 > You'd just have to make clear that it isn't supported by gentoo in any way.
7
8 But if it isn't supported; why should we even bother maintaining it
9 resource-wise (even if it was just infrastructure)? g-wiki.com already has
10 it, it's unofficial and the official gentoo doc team can take interesting
11 bits of out and convert it to GuideXML if the author agrees on the used
12 license.
13
14 Wkr,
15 Sven Vermeulen
16
17 --
18 ^__^ And Larry saw that it was Good.
19 (oo) Sven Vermeulen
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