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On 10/06/16 17:16, james wrote: |
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> And this effort needs a documentation collection to support users, |
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> post installation to their target (ideal stage-4?) collection of |
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> packages; many of which they maintain themselves even if a strong-user |
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> or dev |
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> helps them assimilate those final packages. Then they can use stage-4 |
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> snapshots for periodic backups on complete systems. or for quick |
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> installs of new systems. (that would super-charge my cluster dev work)! |
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> It just seems to me that we have all of that now, but it is:: |
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> 1) not organized |
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> 2) needs documentation so folks do not have to use irc to ask the same |
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> questions over and over and over again (gentoo wiki is maturing in |
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> this direction too, imho. |
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> 3) needs (desires) gentoo managed repos, not github |
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> For now, we can use github for users. A glep or 2 can solved 1 and |
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> (2), well I was politely turned down, so suggestions on documentation |
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> to achieve this? Data-mining of emails and irc could easily provide |
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> the first-draft of the docs for need (2). |
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> James |
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(2) any user can edit wiki pages not governed by Projects. Even Project |
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pages I'm sure could be updated by means of patches submitted to the |
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appropriate team, with some basic follow-up to ensure action. |
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(3) until some enthusiastic sponsors come forward to host/maintain these |
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systems, I don't think its fair to overburden the already stretched |
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Infra guys (no offence, guys! you're doin a great job). |
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MJE |
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