Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

["Nathan L. Adams" <nadams@ieee.org>]

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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:02:58 -0500 "Nathan L. Adams" <nadams@ieee.org>
> wrote:
> | So if you didn't want people to actually review and comment on *your*
> | GLEP, why did you write:
> | 
> | "The attached GLEP is a draft proposal for the emerge --news thing
> | that's been under discussion. There are still some TODO items. These
> | are calls for people to weigh in with suggestions. Of course,
> | suggestions on other items are good too..."
> 
> I want people to review and comment on it after they've actually read
> the thing.
> 

I have read it, and I find it lacking; thus the comments. Or are you
claiming that the idea of having a central website like errata.g.o with
GuideXML-ized migrations guides is in your GLEP? Its not. I'm proposing
adding that as the definative source of the errata, and feeding it to
other places (emerge --news, mailing lists, forums, GWN) as desired.

I'm also commenting on the part that *wrongly* states "It is not
reasonable to expect all users to have an MTA, *web browser*, email
client, cron daemon or text processing suite available on their system.
In particular, this means that any markup to be parsed must be in a very
simple format."

*ALL* of the official docs are GuideXML; Gentoo *expects* users to have
a web browser by default. Otherwise a vast majority of users would never
get Gentoo installed in the first place. The "lightweight" requirement
appears to just be your way of subverting the current documentation
standards (because of your XML hatred).

The news directory shouldn't the main source of the migration guides;
the website should be (one central page that can feed other sources).
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