Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: David Ford <david@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Wiki/informal docs?
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:04:18
Message-Id: 4C121672.3070401@blue-labs.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Wiki/informal docs? by Martin Guy
1 further, many people attempted to restore pages by reposting from cache
2 and places like way back web. however the powers that be for that site
3 fully rejected said content since it didn't match their new format. so
4 nearly every google page you hit ends up '404'.
5
6 -d
7
8 On 06/11/10 04:07, Martin Guy wrote:
9 > On 6/11/10, jesse@×××××××××××××.com <jesse@×××××××××××××.com> wrote:
10 >
11 >> It seems that the "official" gentoo wiki project has
12 >> either stalled or is being done behind the curtain
13 >>
14 > The gentoo wiki was maintained by an individual who managed to lose
15 > the entire thing in a server crash and not have any backups. An object
16 > lesson in "how to do throw away a ton of other people's time and
17 > knowledge with as little effort as possible, while simultaneously
18 > doing a small lobotomy to the world mind".
19 >
20 > wiki.gentoo.org would be the most sensible place - it might be backed
21 > up independently by more than one person that way - but it's
22 > username-password locked even for reading, which completely defeats
23 > the point of a technical wiki in open-source world.
24 >
25 > M
26 >