Joseph Jezak wrote:
> Josh Saddler wrote:
>> Hey guys, it's that time of year again, and I'll again be Handbook
>> Release Coordinator. I opened a tracker bug[1] for your viewing pleasure.
>>
>> I've started doing the initial documentation imports, and will be doing
>> the rest and prepping the docs with the small changes later, once I'm
>> back from work.
>>
>> So what I need from you guys is your availability status for working on
>> docs -- for the last few releases I've pretty much made all the changes
>> singlehandedly, and that's quite a load to bear. So, who's around?
>>
>> Translators, you're going to have extra fun, as there will be lots of
>> changes made in a very short time for you to follow. Actually, what
>> active languages do we have? I don't even know that anymore. Who will
>> have complete translations ready at some point for 2007.1? This affects
>> what I put into our index.xml files.
>>
>> We got a lot of docs to cover, not just the installation handbooks. See
>> [2], Chapter 2, for a listing.
>>
>> Anyway, I'll keep you updated as we reach milestones. I say "we" because
>> I hope at least some of you will be available to help out. :)
>>
>> Luck, and a great release,
>>
>> Josh
>>
>>
>> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197814
>> [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/doc/handbook-release.xml
>>
>
> I'll be handling the ppc and ppc64 handbooks this release. I'd like
> to combine them actually, since we'll be using the same release
> media for both architectures. Would this be fine with you guys?
> Did anything ever happen with the templated handbook idea?
>
> -Joe
I never heard back from Xavier on the handbook includes proposal, so . .
. who knows. Combining the ppc handbooks seems like it'll take quite a
bit of work though, as I imagine there will need to be a lot of
conditionals for 64/32-bit differences. Well, that's what I'm guessing
anyway. I mean, there's a while extra chapter or something just for
oldworld machines, and other 32-bit ppc platforms.
Still, let's take a look at the code and see what duplicates what. I'm
sure we can think of something. :)
(Though it really really would be nice to finally get handbook includes
for everything! --hint hint)
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