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> On Aug 1, 2016, at 10:24 AM, Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> As mentioned in a previous mail, we're going to decommission the Gentoo |
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> Documentation Project (for now) and put all documentation development |
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> efforts under the Gentoo Wiki Project umbrella. I am suggesting the |
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> following approach to do so, in a gently manner. |
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> I don't think there is a need for a waiting period between steps, but I |
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> won't hurry the actions either. Step 5 will probably take a while anyway. |
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> Please take a look at this and see if I'm forgetting something or not. |
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> Wkr, |
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> Sven Vermeulen |
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> 1. Update Gentoo Documentation Project wiki page with notification |
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> I am going to add a warning on the Documentation Project wiki page to inform |
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> readers that the project is being decommissioned, with an explanation why |
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> (roughly, all documentation development is now purely done as wiki edits, no |
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> need for an overarching project). |
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> 2. Remove links to Project:Documentation/Overview |
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> This page was initially meant to give pointers to actively "edited" pages, |
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> but the quality of various articles is already quite good, and there are not |
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> many editors aware of how this overview was kept up-to-date (if at all). |
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> The page is linked from a few locations (main wiki page, as well as |
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> handbooks). Instead, I'll update those to point to the main wiki page (which |
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> has "Documentation topics" under "Available documentation") as the best |
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> entry point to the remainder of Gentoo's documentation. |
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> 3. Move "active" Project:Documentation docs to Project:Wiki |
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> If I am not mistaken, there is a single document that is still quite active |
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> and needed, which is Project:Documentation/Handbook_Development. I am going |
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> to move that document to Project:Wiki as the document explains how the |
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> handbook is maintained on the wiki. |
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> All other documents will be mentioned under the "Obsolete" section of the |
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> documentation project site, and they will all receive an obsolete message on |
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> top of the article. |
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> 4. Remove all members from Gentoo Documentation Project |
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> I will remove all members from the Gentoo Documentation Project and its |
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> subproject, the Gentoo Documentation Translation Project. A single user will |
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> remain (myself) with indication that it is for housekeeping until final |
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> removal. |
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> Note that there will be two developers (jkt and jaaf) who will no longer |
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> have any active project associated with them! |
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> 5. Remove references to Gentoo Documentationn Project from *.gentoo.org |
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> Go through the various resources that we have and ensure that there are no |
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> references towards the GDP anymore (or at least not as an active project). |
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> 6. Drop infrastructural support for Gentoo Documentation |
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> Next, the infrastructural services for the Gentoo Documentation will be |
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> cleaned up. This means mailinglists and aliases (I don't think there is a |
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> repository specific to the GDP). |
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> 7. Remove Project:Documentation from the wiki |
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> Finally, clean up the last traces of the GDP from the wiki. |
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does this mean that existing GDP members should add ourselves to the Wiki project(1) to list our continued involvement in maintaining the wiki docs? |
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(1) https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Wiki |