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On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:54:31 +0100 |
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AllenJB <gentoo-lists@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> The situation with the Gentoo Handbook is quite frankly getting |
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> beyond a joke for those of us donating our time to help users. |
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> I have tried to bring up the issues on the docs team list but pretty |
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> much get shot down and told everything is fine and dandy. |
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> For example, quoteth the Handbook at: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5 |
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> Most PC users should use the stage3-i686-2008.0.tar.bz2 stage3 |
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> archive. |
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> This results in users starting out with a version of portage that |
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> doesn't understand EAPI-2. Guess what happens next. |
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> I personally would happily donate my time to working on the docs, if |
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> only it didn't involve a markup language nobody else uses. I |
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> suggested a closed wiki for official documentation, but was again |
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> shot down saying that the existing team (who seem to be doing |
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> nothing) would need to reskill and that the server admins dislike |
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> wikis. |
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> Is it really satisfactory that the official install documentation |
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> results in a basically non-working install? |
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I have seen many users happy with the unofficial wiki idea, and they |
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have expressed a "official" wiki would be great, and I share the same |
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idea. |
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Víctor |
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