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On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Jan Kundrát <jkt@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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Hi, thanks for your mail. My answer will be short though :) |
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> First of all, a suggestion -- maybe, when you want to do something to |
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> the docs (like change the presentation layer, integrate a WYSIWYG |
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> editor, convert to git from CVS, or stuff like that -- which are all the |
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> objectives of the project [2]), maybe it would be a great idea to |
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> contact the GDP first. There are fine contacts for chatting with us, |
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> either the nice gentoo-doc ML, or the #gentoo-doc IRC channel, or the |
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> docs-team@g.o alias. I have no idea whether Theo contacted anyone |
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> directly, but I'm sure I haven't received anything through any of these |
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> channels. That's bad, and it means that there's a communication problem |
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> somewhere. |
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Sure, I contacted Josh who showed much interest to my idea, and Infra |
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to make sure they (we) are willing to replace gorg |
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> Theo also mentions that "By all appearances Gorg has been abandoned as a |
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> project. This has resulted in difficulty in maintaining the Gentoo |
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> website, and also makes the work of updating the website's design or |
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> functionality all the more troublesome." and goes on to mention that |
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> "Gorg as an abandoned project is suffering from bugs that get pilled up, |
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> not to mention possible security risks that may arise". Can I ask for a |
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> reference to the "bugs that get pilled up", and to Gorg resulting in |
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> "difficulty in maintaining the Gentoo website"? |
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Gorg currently has two very important bugs open in bugzilla. We've |
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faced a couple more recently. The reality is that Gorg's developer |
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retired and stopped working on it, and noone in infra is willing to |
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touch it as well. Plus, we don't like using outdated / ambandoned |
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projects, especially for security reasons. |
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> Please don't get me wrong, I certainly do not want to hinder any efforts |
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> targeted at making our website better, or our workflow faster for those |
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> that really contribute. I just tend to get slightly upset when I see an |
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> approved GSoC project which will, IMHO, fundamentally change the way how |
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> GDP works, then read a few assertions that fail to persuade me, and |
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> realize that I can't find any notice of what is going to happen until |
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> after the project got approved -- that's a sure way to piss me of. |
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Nothing will change for GDP. The GuideXML will continue to exist, you |
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will be able to edit XML files directly as usual. There will be only |
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improvements here (like stats for translators, an editor, etc). |
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> Anyway, I really hope I'm just a weird, grumpy guy who somehow missed a |
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> well-targeted discussion. Hence, please do correct my impressions. |
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If you need any other information from my part, I'll be happy to provide it. |
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> In the meanwhile, have fun |
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> Jan |