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 1Mu795-0002CB-FX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:07:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE943E09D5; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 16:07:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f174.google.com (mail-pz0-f174.google.com [209.85.222.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91ECFE09D5 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 16:07:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk4 with SMTP id 4so1771189pzk.32 for ; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:07:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=fLCb5CIrvIkARIlzJyS+/dIy4B3Q9EN+pq22bYevdik=; b=X2qtttIc9gK9uJLZ/qLKmrsDQQP/X23q5nKqi58L5JZ845aUadCbwPPnvBS0WX/y7F QpiSoMGDdMmcR2B1L3BqmumsjcIIKi2B8NSZa3IuQUxFTpNs1v1PBNhd+Qip1htucL+G HGN68Ep7R5qykQ1w+0zQdBr0RXsGbfBaF1PfY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=kPKUwyP8c4/2+A++s0BR+ypT5xdoVl2DVERz/RFRN8p802ZxyRIJFw5+dWvDGXtZZr iKrCwTlb1u9JAOHXN5c/uVMQkvX3djmvvr+swXZH9EWPrMBsyoxhj94Z4Ir1c78Tiqyh c02hcZaCkQ9e1jXMIpvbY4ncFTO8mJ5bREjVo= 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 Sender: nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.114.164.28 with SMTP id m28mr5578822wae.221.1254586061029; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:07:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4AC765A7.6030301@allenjb.me.uk> References: <4AC765A7.6030301@allenjb.me.uk> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 21:37:41 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6f36550a5e88547f Message-ID: <8b4c83ad0910030907n43edd01ay5219a851d7f3a363@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone interested in maintaining the Gentoo Handbooks? From: Nirbheek Chauhan To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 503530e3-36c1-4055-a604-3428a794c26a X-Archives-Hash: cb9c15067464b6e50c869b89cb2f721b On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:24 PM, AllenJB wrote: > 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. You're in luck, the Beacon project has perfected it's Django branch which is now nearly ready for deployment. I think this is a far better option than converting all of the existing XML docs into Wiki and alienating an entire team. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan GNOME+Mozilla Team, Gentoo