RE: [gentoo-catalyst] Wiki document

["Kessler, Paul" <kessler@co.wabasha.mn.us>]

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Is it me or does the Catalyst Wiki entry have about as much to do with
the official documentation as what color shorts I have on does? I'm
sorry but people like Chris, Andrew, Eric and many others who develop
projects like Catalyst and Genkernel are doing far more than giving
presentations at a lug. These are people with full time careers and
families that still put in an ungodly amount of time to make Gentoo what
it is. Instead of complaining how about just saying thank you. They have
all helped me a great deal on many occasions and when the opportunity
presents itself I make sure to buy the beer. I guess if that is so hard
to grasp I hear Debian is looking...

 

Paul 

 

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From: Caleb Cushing [mailto:xenoterracide@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 11:01 AM
To: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Wiki document

 

you mean besides starting the portage 2.1 thread trying to sort out the
new features? and considering updating the wiki for catalyst?
volunteering for user representative at gentoo, and giving presentations
frequently at my local lug? studying school doing my 40 hour a week
internship, and I somewhat aided with other docs in the past, filing
bugs to add, update, or remove sections. So I suppose I've done nothing
to help gentoo or the linux community? no need to get so offended... I
applaud the fact that catalyst2 won't be made stable without proper
documentation, and a how to is planned. believe it or not I'm willing to
help. but I can't help a project I don't understand. but I don't like it
when software is rolled out as STABLE without proper documentation and
months later it still doesn't have it. I guess I will have to write it
myself question is will it make it into the tree? I'll see what I can do
in the next few weeks to get the portage utilities man pages in the next
few weeks and make an update to the portage manpage. I'm not coming down
on you, and gentoo generally has the best documentation around, however
I notice many new tools (gentoo specific) are lacking it. 

On 8/8/06, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 10:55 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote:
> finally someone is writing documentation? for something this year?
> <sarcasm>I thought docs were on hold for 06?</sarcasm> know if portage

> docs will be updated too? sorry for the sarcasm... I just think some
> things that should have been documented weren't. catalyst not
> necessarily one of those things although a bit more would have been 
> nice...

You know, was there really a point in this?

I'm a volunteer.  I spend about 40 hours a week working on Gentoo stuff,
besides my normal 40 hour a week job.  You're complaining because what I

volunteer on wasn't done to your satisfaction?  Seriously, keep this
kind of opinion to yourself.  I don't care to hear it, and it doesn't
contribute anything to the conversation.

What did *you* do to help get documentation done? 

--
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux



 


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