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On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:43:55AM +0000, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> Just a heads-up for everybody - more information will follow of course. |
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> I have started copying the Gentoo handbooks to the Gentoo Wiki. Through |
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> transclusion and semantic wiki, which is supported on Gentoo Wiki, we are |
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> able to do similar reuse of blocks for the architectures. |
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> Given the low resources we are currently having, I think the move to the |
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> wiki will help us with keeping the instructions up to date. |
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> For now, please do not touch anything in the "Handbook:" namespace of the |
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> wiki as I'm going through the effort of migrating it. |
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> Information on translations and so on will follow. |
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An update on this mini-project. |
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I've made a page [1] on our project wiki space about the handbook |
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development on the Wiki. It covers |
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- how the architecture consolidation is done (the alternative of the |
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GuideXML "include" elements to tie architecture-specific and |
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architecture-agnostic information together) |
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- how the parameters (the //value/key stuff in our main handbook XMLs) are |
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used on the wiki |
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- pointers about translating the handbook on the wiki |
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[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Documentation/HandbookDevelopment |
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I have also copied the AMD64 handbook [2] (the one I have the most affinity |
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with) already to the wiki to see how things work out. For now, everything is |
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still marked with "Work in Progress". I am only going to remove that the |
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moment that the XML files have been updated to point to the Wiki so that |
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users are "less confused" about what handbook is now the active one. |
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[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64 |
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Comments are always welcome. During the copy, I do notice that there is some |
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outdated information in the non-installation part of the handbook (perhaps |
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also in the installation part, but that I can't tell for sure). I am *not* |
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planning on fixing this before the wiki handbook goes live, although I do |
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plan to update the handbook on the wiki afterwards. |
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Yes, that also means that the bugs that are currently reported against the |
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handbook will need to wait until the wiki move is done - I rather focus on |
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one thing at a time. And I think that the move to the wiki will also help us |
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in the sense that developers can then update the instructions themselves |
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rather than having to go through bugzilla to reach us/me. Efficiency++ |
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Larger changes will of course be communicated and suggested up front on this |
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mailinglist. |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |