From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L0N7P-0001nc-4P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:19:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 09752E0512; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:19:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www01.badapple.net (www01.badapple.net [64.79.219.163]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2CCCE0512 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:19:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.72.229.31] (nat-dip11.fw.corp.yahoo.com [209.131.62.120]) (Authenticated sender: ramin@badapple.net) by www01.badapple.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8D9D150159 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:19:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <491B4853.8030200@badapple.net> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:19:15 -0800 From: kashani User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki References: <20081111234532.GG7038@aerie.halcy0n.com> <20081112094442.GL4535@mephisto> <491AC569.50407@gentoo.org> <491AC68C.6040701@ceng.metu.edu.tr> <20081112124958.GP4535@mephisto> <491AFAF5.7050904@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <491AFAF5.7050904@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: fa10dade-369e-49c3-96e5-3fb66520a2f1 X-Archives-Hash: eb048bc5e1b61c6e88326a9141578cde Jan Kundr=E1t wrote: > Michael Hammer wrote: >>> The wiki can be a staging ground for user contributed documents,=20 >>> which can >>> become part of official docs after a review and cleanup by developers= . >=20 > ...as long as they use a compatible license, is not the case right now=20 > (and never was, IIRC). >=20 >> 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. >=20 > Contrary to popular belief, we (the GDP) don't require submissions in=20 > any particular format. We have plenty of monkeys that can convert just=20 > about anything to our fancy internal format. We do our best to=20 > communicate this fact to other people in Gentoo, but apparently it's a=20 > 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=20 believe I looked into updating the old and crufty Virtual Mail How-to=20 and decided it was easier to create a new one at gentoo-wiki. kashani