Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

[kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net>]

Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Michael Hammer wrote:
>>> The wiki can be a staging ground for user contributed documents, 
>>> which can
>>> become part of official docs after a review and cleanup by developers.
> 
> ...as long as they use a compatible license, is not the case right now 
> (and never was, IIRC).
> 
>> That's the way I intended my proposal. As some kind of early state GDP
>> documents. It's an unwritten fact that user are willing to contribute
>> to wiki systems - but I've never received an xml file for our GDP
>> written by a user ;) ... The wiki can be the place to develop new
>> howtos by disburding the devs - IMHO.
> 
> Contrary to popular belief, we (the GDP) don't require submissions in 
> any particular format. We have plenty of monkeys that can convert just 
> about anything to our fancy internal format. We do our best to 
> communicate this fact to other people in Gentoo, but apparently it's a 
> tough job, as I don't recall much submissions in non-XML form.

	How easy is it to checkout current GDP docs and make changes to them? I 
believe I looked into updating the old and crufty Virtual Mail How-to 
and decided it was easier to create a new one at gentoo-wiki.

kashani