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Hi all, |
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The situation with the Gentoo Handbook is quite frankly getting beyond a |
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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 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 suggested a |
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closed wiki for official documentation, but was again shot down saying |
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that the existing team (who seem to be doing nothing) would need to |
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reskill and that the server admins dislike 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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AllenJB |