Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)

[Daniel Campbell]

On 06/10/2016 09:05 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 04:20:06PM +0100, M. J. Everitt wrote:
>> (2) any user can edit wiki pages not governed by Projects. Even Project
>> pages I'm sure could be updated by means of patches submitted to the
>> appropriate team, with some basic follow-up to ensure action.
>
> Only users with a wiki account. The gentoo wiki/handbook et. al. are
> great, but I personally really do not like editing wikis in general.
> When I see a clarification or improvement that I could make in gentoo's
> docs, I remember that I'd have to:
>
> * get a wiki account
> * use a dumb web editor and (probably) HTML to make a change instead of vim

I edit the wiki every now and then, and use a great extension for
Firefox called "It's All Text" which allows you to use any program to
edit the text in <textarea> elements. It makes editing much better for
me. I'm not sure if Chromium has anything equivalent, but it's something.

> * get it approved somehow
>
> All my enthusiasm vanishes at that point. If gentoo's wiki/docs were,
> say, a bunch of markdown files in a git repo somewhere, I would be much
> more willing to clone the repo, make a change, and send in a patch. A
> wiki and handbook could be auto-generated from this, of course. From an
> infra standpoint, this is also simpler than maintaining a wiki.
>
>> (3) until some enthusiastic sponsors come forward to host/maintain these
>> systems, I don't think its fair to overburden the already stretched
>> Infra guys (no offence, guys! you're doin a great job).
>
> Agree. Gentoo is fantastic.
>
> Alec
>


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