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All, |
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After _many_ essential and necessary years of service the Gentoo |
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Documentation Project (GDP) has fulfilled its purpose[1][2] and is in |
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the process of being phased out. |
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As a platform, the wiki has enabled every Gentoo developer (not just |
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those in the Documentation team) and many in the community to maintain |
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Gentoo documentation. All the relevant "HOWTO" articles and other |
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articles produced by former GDP members (and other contributors) have |
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long since moved to publicly editable wiki namespace. These days the |
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community and every Gentoo developer should step up to the plate from |
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time-to-time and maintain the docs. |
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There is very little that is currently "locked down" on the wiki. The |
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Handbook (and everything else in the Handbook namespace) is one |
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exception to what is publicly editable. Since it contains our official |
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and crucial installation instructions; it is a bit risky to put it |
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publicly editable namespace. This creates an inherent 'who's responsible |
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to keep it updated?' So, in order to clarify who will continue to assume |
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responsibility for the Gentoo Handbook, the Handbook project has been |
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newly formed as a sub-project of the Wiki project. Currently just SwifT |
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and me are in this new project, but anyone who's interested in |
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updating/maintaining the Handbook is welcome to join. |
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Here are our current goals, short and sweet: |
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1. Actively modernize and maintain the official Gentoo Handbook |
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documentation in the Handbook: namespace. |
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2. Handle 'marking' the Handbook for translation. |
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3. Maintain the Handbook Development guide. |
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Comments on these are welcome. |
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Suggestions for Handbook updates or fixes can be left on each page's |
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discussion page. Among other areas of contribution, those who are a part |
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of this project will make it a priority to respond to these queries. |
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I suspect next we'll need an e-mail address separate from the wiki's |
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mail address. Other than that we'll still all hang out in #gentoo-wiki |
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on Freenode and continue advancing Gentoo to a better place. Again, |
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comments are welcome. |
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Kind regards, |
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Maffblaster |
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[1] |
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https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-doc/message/892f335a04fb7e372116ca3e6b2d0c84 |
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[2] |
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https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-doc/message/944b4b36ab3883c6b223a240feb42fb8 |