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Hi all, |
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For some time now, the idea of a Gentoo Knowledge Base, like RedHat [1] |
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and Microsoft [2] do, has been brewing in Andrés Pereira and my minds. Not |
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only that, but a feature request was also filed some time ago [3] and just |
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recently a forum thread was started for it [4]. |
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So, what is this about? |
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A Knowledge Base provides answers to specific questions and problems that |
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users (or developers) might encounter. It is easily searchable and |
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maintained by developers who are knowledgeable in the topic. The knowledge |
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base entries ("topics" as I like to call them) are not documentation guides, |
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but very specific to a particular environment and question. They should |
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leave absolutely *no* room for different interpretations. |
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I have started a project site for this at |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kbase. A mailinglist has been created and will |
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hopefully start a nice discussion about this topic. The mailinglist is |
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gentoo-kbase@g.o afaik. Once we have a nice idea about where we want |
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to go (sic), a GLEP will probably follow for those who don't want to follow |
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the mailinglist but do want to know what we will be/are doing. |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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[1] http://kb.redhat.com |
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[2] http://support.microsoft.com |
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[3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102200 |
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[4] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-462377.html |
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