Desmond, can you please put the installation guide back? I sent the mail below to arch-releng but I think I forgot to send it to you too. It includes my reasoning. Furthermore, the page is locked so that helps people from "accidentially contributing"
Dieter On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:26:08 +0200 Dieter Plaetinck <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
