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Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 06:45:01PM +0000, Luis Medinas wrote: |
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>>We could start a public wiki displaying all herds and projects. It would |
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>>be great to add some low level docs, herds/project goals, ideas and so. |
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>>Even the users could be allowed to edit and share information. |
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> I would personally welcome additional documentation, but if we're going to |
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> add an official Wiki for Gentoo, we're basically splitting the documentation |
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> development on many sides. |
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So, maybe we should list the different type of documentation issues |
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we're facing today. It seems that there are several areas where Gentoo |
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could improve and speed up documentation on a few things. |
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* The GDP docs |
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* Herd specific docs/updates |
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* Unofficial/draft docs from users/devs |
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Perhaps we should consider re-evaluating how we deal with documentation |
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for Gentoo to try and deal with the hodge-podge of documentation |
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scattered everywhere from numerous self-run trac installs, to self run |
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wikis of other kinds. Its really starting to hurt Gentoo in some aspect |
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because of the disjointness of those docs. |
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What if instead of having proj/en we did herd/en on www? Of course, that |
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doesn't help the whole "GuideXML is hard" bit. I like the idea of using |
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RST, but it doesn't seem very scalable at this time. Maybe, instead of |
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that, we created some kind of development site for herds (maybe |
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herds.g.o). Could be a place where herds put up status updates, specific |
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docs, draft docs, etc. Once things get established on that site, docs |
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could get moved to GDP if it were logical to do. |
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Now that leaves us to unofficial docs from users. I'm not sure where to |
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put that. A public wiki poses a whole slew of issues I don't think we |
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have enough staff to manage. But relying on gentoo-wiki isn't exactly |
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the best avenue either. Having a site like this is like having another |
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'team' similar to the forums trying to maintain order/facts. There needs |
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to be another solution that doesn't require as much effort on our part. |
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I sadly can't think of an answer. I guess the real question is, is this |
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that much of a problem/issue? |
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Who knows, its getting late in the night for me and I'm just starting to |
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think up crazy ideas :-) |
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In short: Do we need to re-evaluate Gentoo's documentation structure to |
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better fit the needs of of our users and developers? |
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Cheers- |
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