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On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:24 PM, AllenJB <gentoo-lists@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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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. |
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You're in luck, the Beacon project has perfected it's Django branch |
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which is now nearly ready for deployment. I think this is a far better |
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option than converting all of the existing XML docs into Wiki and |
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alienating an entire team. |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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GNOME+Mozilla Team, Gentoo |
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