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 1ON222-0007NZ-U0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:04:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91E85E0C17 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:04:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blue-labs.org (blue-labs.us [72.34.249.230]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BCDFE0B7A for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:56:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:d:3de:5c11:1fff:fe8b:4fa4] ([IPv6:2001:470:d:3de:5c11:1fff:fe8b:4fa4]) (authenticated user=david bits=0) by colt.blue-labs.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o5BAtexw013858 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:55:41 -0400 Message-ID: <4C121672.3070401@blue-labs.org> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:56:50 -0400 From: David Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.4 ThunderBrowse/3.2.6.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Wiki/informal docs? References: <20100610230610.7CFB6E0A41@pigeon.gentoo.org> <1276216676.19855.1379545087@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,SHORTCIRCUIT shortcircuit=ham autolearn=disabled version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on Colt X-Archives-Salt: fd863979-6657-4f05-a2af-43407c9fe779 X-Archives-Hash: fbcae6c2cdfe5fa7b93db3a534c83a71 further, many people attempted to restore pages by reposting from cache and places like way back web. however the powers that be for that site fully rejected said content since it didn't match their new format. so nearly every google page you hit ends up '404'. -d On 06/11/10 04:07, Martin Guy wrote: > On 6/11/10, jesse@boldandbusted.com wrote: > >> It seems that the "official" gentoo wiki project has >> either stalled or is being done behind the curtain >> > The gentoo wiki was maintained by an individual who managed to lose > the entire thing in a server crash and not have any backups. An object > lesson in "how to do throw away a ton of other people's time and > knowledge with as little effort as possible, while simultaneously > doing a small lobotomy to the world mind". > > wiki.gentoo.org would be the most sensible place - it might be backed > up independently by more than one person that way - but it's > username-password locked even for reading, which completely defeats > the point of a technical wiki in open-source world. > > M >