From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mu6XW-0005pg-Nk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:28:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFB9BE0936; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 15:28:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D0BDE0936 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 15:28:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bit (unknown [200.13.191.87]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A141367710 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 15:28:50 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 09:25:43 -0600 From: Victor Ostorga To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone interested in maintaining the Gentoo Handbooks? Message-ID: <20091003092543.259f39db@bit> In-Reply-To: <4AC765A7.6030301@allenjb.me.uk> References: <4AC765A7.6030301@allenjb.me.uk> Organization: Gentoo Linux X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: d043fe38-88eb-4fb1-b6bb-7c0a53cd6be9 X-Archives-Hash: 4e7c7aec66fb538f98dc284352707bbe On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:54:31 +0100 AllenJB wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > The situation with the Gentoo Handbook is quite frankly getting > beyond a joke for those of us donating our time to help users. >=20 > I have tried to bring up the issues on the docs team list but pretty > much get shot down and told everything is fine and dandy. >=20 > For example, quoteth the Handbook at: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3D1&chap=3D5 > Most PC users should use the stage3-i686-2008.0.tar.bz2 stage3 > archive. >=20 > This results in users starting out with a version of portage that > doesn't understand EAPI-2. Guess what happens next. >=20 > I personally would happily donate my time to working on the docs, if > only it didn't involve a markup language nobody else uses. I > suggested a closed wiki for official documentation, but was again > shot down saying that the existing team (who seem to be doing > nothing) would need to reskill and that the server admins dislike > wikis. >=20 > Is it really satisfactory that the official install documentation > results in a basically non-working install? >=20 I have seen many users happy with the unofficial wiki idea, and they have expressed a "official" wiki would be great, and I share the same idea. V=C3=ADctor