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Hi all, |
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As mentioned in a previous mail, we're going to decommission the Gentoo |
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Documentation Project (for now) and put all documentation development |
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efforts under the Gentoo Wiki Project umbrella. I am suggesting the |
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following approach to do so, in a gently manner. |
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I don't think there is a need for a waiting period between steps, but I |
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won't hurry the actions either. Step 5 will probably take a while anyway. |
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Please take a look at this and see if I'm forgetting something or not. |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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1. Update Gentoo Documentation Project wiki page with notification |
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I am going to add a warning on the Documentation Project wiki page to inform |
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readers that the project is being decommissioned, with an explanation why |
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(roughly, all documentation development is now purely done as wiki edits, no |
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need for an overarching project). |
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2. Remove links to Project:Documentation/Overview |
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This page was initially meant to give pointers to actively "edited" pages, |
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but the quality of various articles is already quite good, and there are not |
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many editors aware of how this overview was kept up-to-date (if at all). |
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The page is linked from a few locations (main wiki page, as well as |
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handbooks). Instead, I'll update those to point to the main wiki page (which |
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has "Documentation topics" under "Available documentation") as the best |
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entry point to the remainder of Gentoo's documentation. |
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3. Move "active" Project:Documentation docs to Project:Wiki |
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If I am not mistaken, there is a single document that is still quite active |
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and needed, which is Project:Documentation/Handbook_Development. I am going |
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to move that document to Project:Wiki as the document explains how the |
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handbook is maintained on the wiki. |
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All other documents will be mentioned under the "Obsolete" section of the |
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documentation project site, and they will all receive an obsolete message on |
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top of the article. |
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4. Remove all members from Gentoo Documentation Project |
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I will remove all members from the Gentoo Documentation Project and its |
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subproject, the Gentoo Documentation Translation Project. A single user will |
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remain (myself) with indication that it is for housekeeping until final |
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removal. |
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Note that there will be two developers (jkt and jaaf) who will no longer |
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have any active project associated with them! |
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5. Remove references to Gentoo Documentationn Project from *.gentoo.org |
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Go through the various resources that we have and ensure that there are no |
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references towards the GDP anymore (or at least not as an active project). |
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6. Drop infrastructural support for Gentoo Documentation |
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Next, the infrastructural services for the Gentoo Documentation will be |
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cleaned up. This means mailinglists and aliases (I don't think there is a |
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repository specific to the GDP). |
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7. Remove Project:Documentation from the wiki |
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Finally, clean up the last traces of the GDP from the wiki. |
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