[gentoo-dev] Deleting Dead Projects from the Wiki

[gentoo-dev] Deleting Dead Projects from the Wiki

[Christopher Fore]

Hello all,


I'm currently working with the Wiki team on removing references to 
Layman and noticed the VDR project is dead and none of the links 
attached to their wiki work. Is there a way for me to remove the 
reference to Layman if none of the Project admins are around? If not, 
could the Project page be deleted? If it is too big to outright remove 
(or if it would be preferred to be kept there for historical purposes), 
could there be a big warning on the page?


If you do keep the Project, I'd be happy to help with fixing the broken 
links as well. There is a template that says this package is 
unmaintained and likely out of date.


Thank you!

Re: [gentoo-dev] Deleting Dead Projects from the Wiki

[Philip Webb]

230901 Christopher Fore wrote:
> I'm currently working with the Wiki team on removing references to Layman

Not quite on your topic, during a recent installation
I noticed that Wiki talks re "burning an ISO to a CD".
My new home-built machine doesn't even have a CD drive
nor could the mobo handle it if it did.
Most install ISOs can now be copied directly onto a USB stick,
which boots & has an install button to click.

Perhaps someone else is handling that part of the clean-up.  HTH.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Deleting Dead Projects from the Wiki

[Matthew Marchese]

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On 9/1/23 15:25, Philip Webb wrote:
> 230901 Christopher Fore wrote:
>> I'm currently working with the Wiki team on removing references to Layman
> Not quite on your topic, during a recent installation
> I noticed that Wiki talks re "burning an ISO to a CD".
> My new home-built machine doesn't even have a CD drive
> nor could the mobo handle it if it did.
> Most install ISOs can now be copied directly onto a USB stick,
> which boots & has an install button to click.
>
> Perhaps someone else is handling that part of the clean-up.  HTH.
>
Yes, we are aware that most systems no longer carry built-in optical 
drives and there is an effort to rework those parts of the Handbook and 
adjust terminology and instructions. At the same time we have several 
*other* areas of the wiki that include for creating bootable media on 
USB: 
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB#Using_dd_to_write_the_ISO_image_to_a_USB_drive

See https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Handbook#Terminology_updates

Update downloadable media terminology from LiveCD/DVD/USB to "live 
image" - https://bugs.gentoo.org/903551

Bad documentation and install for machines without CD - 
https://bugs.gentoo.org/902813

Kind regards,

Maffblaster






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