Gentoo Archives: gentoo-doc

From: "Matthew Summers; CEO
To: gentoo-doc@l.g.o
Cc: MEADORS@××××××××××××××××.edu
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Helping Out
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:45:27
Message-Id: 486E51F2.6030803@liquidustech.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-doc] Helping Out by Josh Saddler
1 Josh Saddler wrote:
2 > Brett Meadors wrote:
3 >> I have been reading up and begun helping out with the portage project
4 >> with their documentation, and I would really like to get involved with
5 >> the Documentation team as both a active contributor and editor. Please
6 >> let me know what I can do to help, what projects need some attention,
7 >> and how I can be of help.
8 >
9 > Speaking of Portage . . . one of the things with Portage 2.2, which is
10 > now in ~arch, is that our Portage Handbook and related documentation in
11 > gentoo.org/doc/en/ will need to be updated. 2.2, once stable, will give
12 > everyone capabilities like user-defined sets, new behavior of the world
13 > and system sets, FEATURES like preserve-rebuild (or whatever they ended
14 > up calling it), and more.
15 >
16 > Though I've heard via third parties that some of the Portage developers
17 > plan to help out with updating this documentation, we haven't heard from
18 > them yet. So, if you want to, head on over to the GDP page, at
19 > http://gdp.gentoo.org. We have resources there on how to write GuideXML.
20 > Armed with this knowledge, you'd be ready to tackle the updates needed
21 > for the Portage handbook, which starts here:
22 >
23 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=2
24 >
25 > Lots and lots of stuff to jump into. Or, if you'd rather take a break
26 > from Portage docs, just jump into bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org) and
27 > search for open Documentation and Docs-user bugs that are assigned
28 > to/CCed to docs-team@g.o. Just poke at whatever you want to do;
29 > any and all help is welcome. Happy hunting.
30 >
31 Josh,
32
33 I was told to talk to you about gentoo related graphics. I have a hardened badge I made for our main site, that might be cool to include on
34 the graphics page, since there are no hardened badges that I have seen. Here's a direct link.
35 http://www.liquidustech.com/media_files/images/powered_by_hardened_gentoo_badge.png
36
37 Still could use some more work, but its a good start.
38
39
40 Brett,
41
42 My company has two grad students technical writing interns working on Gentoo docs this summer. I know they would love some additional
43 assistance. Currently we are working on SAN Multipath doc with Joshua Jackson (tsunam), some hardened gentoo docs, bluetooth doc updates,
44 autotools doc creation, and himerge (portage gui) docs. If any of these sound interesting, please contact me. There is aways room for more
45 too. I would personally like to be a part of updating the portage docs.
46
47 Best Regards,
48
49 Matthew Summers
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51 Matthew W. Summers
52
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-doc] Helping Out Josh Saddler <nightmorph@g.o>
RE: [gentoo-doc] Helping Out Brett Meadors <MEADORS@××××××××××××××××.edu>