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Robert Welz posted on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:53:27 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> can please explain what GDP is? |
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> I am in the process of reading the recent gentoo developer documentation |
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> but some things are quite unclear like this abbreviation. |
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I'm not Ben and not a dev, but perhaps my answer will save someone else |
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the trouble, and they can use the time to fix something... |
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GDP is Gentoo Documentation Project, the ones behind most but not all of |
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the various documentation you can find at the appropriate page on the web |
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site, etc. |
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Other similar shorthand notations include "rel" as "relations" when used |
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as a suffix (userrel, devrel) and as "release" when used as a prefix |
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(releng, release engineering), GLEP, Gentoo Linux Enhancement Proposals |
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(our form of the RFCs that form the Internet standards process), GLSA |
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(Gentoo Linux Security Advisory)... very likely others I've missed. |
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Of course, Gentoo is far from alone in developing its own lingo, |
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unfortunately sometimes confusing to the "uninitiated", see the various |
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professional communities, all of which tend to have their own lingo. |
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Luckily, someone can usually explain if you ask. =:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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