Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone interested in maintaining the Gentoo Handbooks?

[N J]

Hi all,

I made a new install the other week-end and I found a couple of
strange things so I would like to help out. The only problem is that I
am pretty newb so I can only point out small things but i would like
to help. One big thing is that we now use eselect in a lot of cases.

In addition, I must say that we should have a couple of more sample
files, .config, xorg.conf and so on. If we would like to get some new
users, I think we should try to help them out a bit more. Just to get
started.

thanks,
Nik,

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:54 PM, AllenJB <gentoo-lists@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The situation with the Gentoo Handbook is quite frankly getting beyond a
> joke for those of us donating our time to help users.
>
> I have tried to bring up the issues on the docs team list but pretty
> much get shot down and told everything is fine and dandy.
>
> For example, quoteth the Handbook at:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5
> Most PC users should use the stage3-i686-2008.0.tar.bz2 stage3 archive.
>
> This results in users starting out with a version of portage that
> doesn't understand EAPI-2. Guess what happens next.
>
> I personally would happily donate my time to working on the docs, if
> only it didn't involve a markup language nobody else uses. I suggested a
> closed wiki for official documentation, but was again shot down saying
> that the existing team (who seem to be doing nothing) would need to
> reskill and that the server admins dislike wikis.
>
> Is it really satisfactory that the official install documentation
> results in a basically non-working install?
>
>
> AllenJB
>
>