Continuing this on arch-releng ML. This started with a PM from me to Desmond on the wiki.
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:13:14 -0400 Desmond Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Dieter, > > Removing the guide from the wiki was discussed (albeit briefly) on the > arch-releng mailing list: > > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2011-June/001805.html > > ... specifically in this post: > > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2011-June/001829.html > > There seemed to be little or no objection to removing the guide at the > time. Rather, the majority opinion appeared to be in favour of merging > the guides (albeit by a small margin). > > I apologize for not announcing this change more prominently first. How > would you like to proceed? > > -- Des > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Dieter be <[email protected]> wrote: > > I noticed you removed the official installation guide. > > Please don't do that, at least not without asking first. > > I prefer to keep the page on the wiki like it was, it seems you have a > > different opinion, but before doing something drastic like this, you should > > IMHO discuss it first, so that other developers can cast their opinion. > > > > Dieter > > > > -- > > This e-mail was sent by Dieter be to Pointone by the "E-mail user" function > > at ArchWiki. > > Rereading that discussion, it seems - no agreement whatsoever was reached. - i raised some counter arguments about the suggested approach(es), which were not addressed. Here's what I suggest: - you put the page back - if you think really lots of effort is wasted by users not clearly seeing the page is not maintained through the wiki, we can make that a bit clearer (i.e. in the page header) - all contributions are welcome through git. specifically, let me know if the i8n patch @ https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22088 looks good to you. Dieter
