Sven Vermeulen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 06:45:01PM +0000, Luis Medinas wrote: > >>We could start a public wiki displaying all herds and projects. It would >>be great to add some low level docs, herds/project goals, ideas and so. >>Even the users could be allowed to edit and share information. > > > I would personally welcome additional documentation, but if we're going to > add an official Wiki for Gentoo, we're basically splitting the documentation > development on many sides.
So, maybe we should list the different type of documentation issues we're facing today. It seems that there are several areas where Gentoo could improve and speed up documentation on a few things. * The GDP docs * Herd specific docs/updates * Unofficial/draft docs from users/devs Perhaps we should consider re-evaluating how we deal with documentation for Gentoo to try and deal with the hodge-podge of documentation scattered everywhere from numerous self-run trac installs, to self run wikis of other kinds. Its really starting to hurt Gentoo in some aspect because of the disjointness of those docs. What if instead of having proj/en we did herd/en on www? Of course, that doesn't help the whole "GuideXML is hard" bit. I like the idea of using RST, but it doesn't seem very scalable at this time. Maybe, instead of that, we created some kind of development site for herds (maybe herds.g.o). Could be a place where herds put up status updates, specific docs, draft docs, etc. Once things get established on that site, docs could get moved to GDP if it were logical to do. Now that leaves us to unofficial docs from users. I'm not sure where to put that. A public wiki poses a whole slew of issues I don't think we have enough staff to manage. But relying on gentoo-wiki isn't exactly the best avenue either. Having a site like this is like having another 'team' similar to the forums trying to maintain order/facts. There needs to be another solution that doesn't require as much effort on our part. I sadly can't think of an answer. I guess the real question is, is this that much of a problem/issue? Who knows, its getting late in the night for me and I'm just starting to think up crazy ideas :-) In short: Do we need to re-evaluate Gentoo's documentation structure to better fit the needs of of our users and developers? Cheers- -- Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager --- GPG Public Key: <http://www.ramereth.net/lance.asc> Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 ramereth/irc.freenode.net
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