Gentoo Archives: gentoo-doc

From: "Jan Kundrát" <jkt@g.o>
To: gentoo-doc@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-doc] [RFC] Marking unmaintained documents
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:57:29
Message-Id: 43206D3A.5030406@gentoo.org
1 Hi GDP-related entities,
2 as promised on IRC, here are my ideas about $SUBJECT.
3
4 Currently we have quite a lot of "unsupported"/"invalid"/"unmaintained"
5 documents for one of these reasons:
6
7 a) Third party article
8 b) Older Handbook
9 c) Translation in language which is not officially supported
10 d) Outdated translation
11
12 First three cases are easily detectable, fourth can't be checked easily
13 ("what is outdated translation?"), AFAIK & IMHO.
14
15 So, the proposed change is to modify the XSL stylesheet to include some
16 bold red warning (with proper i18n, if possible) stating that the
17 document is no longer/not yet/... supproted, for example:
18
19 a) "This article is not part of the official Gentoo documentation, it
20 has been republished on our site only for your convenience and with
21 permisson of the respective copyright owner. It may not reflect current
22 state of things and could be outdated."
23
24 b) "This Handbook is no longer maintained and is left here only for your
25 convenience, please don't bother with submitting bugreports. In case you
26 are looking for networkless installation instructions, please consult
27 <link>current handbook</link>."
28
29 c) "This language is not backed up by an official Translation Team and
30 might be outdated or even incorrect. In doubts please consult
31 [link]original document[/link]."
32
33 Some random resources:
34 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105248 - l-posix3.xml:
35 control_destroy() calls pthread_cond_destroy() twice
36
37 All opinions are welcome.
38
39 -jkt
40
41 --
42 cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth

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