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Nathan L. Adams wrote: |
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> So you're saying that Gentoo consists of projects that are completely |
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> 'silo'd up' and have no bearing whatsoever on each other. Then the |
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> DevRel project only has bearing on those who actually join DevRel. Neat, |
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> a group formed for the sole purpose of coordinating itself. Security |
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> need only concern itself with securing its members (from who knows |
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> what!), and infra can just ignore the needs of everyone else (different |
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> project!). I wonder how any of the other projects *ever* made it onto |
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> the website... |
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Sigh, every project can set up it's own rules for internal project |
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tasks, that means that internal docs could be a set of nice ascii art |
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and then, you have a nice GuideXML page to point to them than happens to |
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be translated on html/pdf/plaintext/whatever upon the necessities. |
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> The errata.g.o (not the summaries w/ link that emerge would output) |
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> would obviously be documentation, would obviously be governed by the Doc |
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> rules, and it would be irrelevant which staff member happened to publish |
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> a particular guide. If Gentoo really is as balkanized as you state, then |
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> it is a sad state of affairs indeed. Maybe the 'full fledged' versions |
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> should be GuideXML-lite or something, I'm not sure, but your argument is |
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> just silly. |
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ARGH looks like MANY people do not get what is good about xml and what |
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is not so good. |
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The whole point of using GuideXML is to make EASY convert to something |
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else. NOT to use it. |
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The problem of using xml everywhere is that it is harder to write and |
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has some work required in order to be parsed and translated. |
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So, if I have to set up an infrastructure that would require me to |
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generate pdf, webpages, text, younameitwegetit and to update/write it |
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not so often and not so quickly, I'd use xml. |
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If there is something that I'd have to write often by hand and quickly |
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and has to be used as is mostly. I'd stay with a simpler format (that |
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maybe is still machine parsable). |
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That said the format Ciaranm suggests for news looks ok for me. XML |
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won't add anything but slowing me. |
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For an errata site GuideXML or an _extended_ version of it could be useful. |
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> =Eiba |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo/linux Developer Gentoo/PPC Operational Leader |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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