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 1Mu899-0002Cq-67 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:11:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C270BE08B1; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 17:11:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f222.google.com (mail-ew0-f222.google.com [209.85.219.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 882C9E08B1 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 17:11:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy22 with SMTP id 22so1754002ewy.14 for ; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:11:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=+vCpG6ndFl2VWo3eheAkZo/G8vtCTnBGHdz6yjJI2Zk=; b=wDiSjHmbFUNpTOMPlXAHwPoS92TfJN7TrwjEQUK1r35pdYbz0eEB8iZ+ZknoVCmy3k 1D6uTHfoDC1A18splBS/VwqUt2IWg7DXmPxwTUD1QMgvDa2VWvwMp0jYt4V6OtsKEmw+ N8gUN6Vypc66pf+W+tLYOU5zJSxq2b5lCYEVk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; b=HUatPFEx4pY8c1ZTGnA/CMVR6ySmtxG+KWxoQxvpk429mKk1bzx0klGXdtTkytjp85 RWKI9vAhnRjUmcTcLgF3InruTT/G0zR5R3M3AwrB5v21ELO+vY77HqPSvYxLWlngZbnd Lk7Fqe1JMggqRXClifQku5bf6fUEVKHGvtN8M= 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 Received: by 10.216.72.199 with SMTP id t49mr601017wed.219.1254589905226; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:11:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4AC765A7.6030301@allenjb.me.uk> References: <4AC765A7.6030301@allenjb.me.uk> From: N J Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 19:11:25 +0200 Message-ID: <2f80c2df0910031011k5dc60506x7656c6795b9dcb1a@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone interested in maintaining the Gentoo Handbooks? To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 0454a4cf-f76a-4e9a-8838-3a6ca700b169 X-Archives-Hash: f62bce2e94c3a84e80fad2bf1586efa1 Hi all, I made a new install the other week-end and I found a couple of strange things so I would like to help out. The only problem is that I am pretty newb so I can only point out small things but i would like to help. One big thing is that we now use eselect in a lot of cases. In addition, I must say that we should have a couple of more sample files, .config, xorg.conf and so on. If we would like to get some new users, I think we should try to help them out a bit more. Just to get started. thanks, Nik, On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:54 PM, AllenJB wrote: > Hi all, > > The situation with the Gentoo Handbook is quite frankly getting beyond a > joke for those of us donating our time to help users. > > 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. > > For example, quoteth the Handbook at: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5 > Most PC users should use the stage3-i686-2008.0.tar.bz2 stage3 archive. > > This results in users starting out with a version of portage that > doesn't understand EAPI-2. Guess what happens next. > > 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. > > Is it really satisfactory that the official install documentation > results in a basically non-working install? > > > AllenJB > >