I'd like to move the Unofficial Gentoo Development Guide [1] onto my devspace [2]. This could be construed as weakening its unofficial status (despite the title and the footers), so I'm asking for comments first rather than simply doing it.
Infra -- this is about three megs of static content. I very much doubt that this will cause any noticeable disc or bandwidth load. If anyone objects, just reply to this email (on or off list) saying so. No need to provide a reason, I'm not going to discuss it or ask for an explanation -- I'll simply withdraw this request. Similarly, if anyone wants me to stop talking about an unofficial doc on official mailing lists, say so and I'll shut up. Finally, if anyone would like any or all of the guide removed, just give the word. Since I'm wasting your bandwidth anyway... Brief summary of updates which may be of interest to some: * Following Stuart's comments [3], I've added an overview [4] of what the various ebuild.sh QA notices mean and how to fix them. I'll be adding in other similar material such as how to fix sandbox violations -- requests welcomed. * Following Tom's comments, I've started a section on arch things [5]. This isn't intended to be comprehensive; it's just a simple overview for non arch people so that they can have some vague clue about what the heck the mips guys mean when they say "this doesn't work on n32". Thanks to the sparc and mips teams for their help and contributions. Currently sparc and mips are the only archs covered in depth, because they're all I know -- it would be much appreciated if other arch teams would like to lend a hand. * Following all kinds of people's comments, I've started a section [6] which is known as the 'tasks reference' until I come up with a less sucky name. Thanks to Aaron for the Bash Completion [7] things and Diego for his commentary on PAM [8]. * More autotools [9] updates. It's getting there... I added some more lines to the picture too. Suggestions, contributions [10], requests, clarifications, hints about the many many typos, complaints etc to me via email. Again, if anyone wants me to shut up about this thing or take it down, just let me know. 1: http://www.firedrop.org.uk/devmanual/ 2: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/ 3: http://tinyurl.com/bfntq 4: http://www.firedrop.org.uk/devmanual//appendices/common-problems/# 5: http://www.firedrop.org.uk/devmanual//archs/# 6: http://www.firedrop.org.uk/devmanual//tasks-reference/# 7: http://www.firedrop.org.uk/devmanual//tasks-reference/completion/ 8: http://www.firedrop.org.uk/devmanual//tasks-reference/pam/ 9: http://www.firedrop.org.uk/devmanual//general-concepts/autotools/# 10: http://www.firedrop.org.uk/devmanual/appendices/contributing/ -- Ciaran McCreesh : #2 Gentoo Whipping Monkey Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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