Hi all, For some time now, the idea of a Gentoo Knowledge Base, like RedHat [1] and Microsoft [2] do, has been brewing in Andrés Pereira and my minds. Not only that, but a feature request was also filed some time ago [3] and just recently a forum thread was started for it [4].
So, what is this about?
A Knowledge Base provides answers to specific questions and problems that
users (or developers) might encounter. It is easily searchable and
maintained by developers who are knowledgeable in the topic. The knowledge
base entries ("topics" as I like to call them) are not documentation guides,
but very specific to a particular environment and question. They should
leave absolutely *no* room for different interpretations.
I have started a project site for this at
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kbase. A mailinglist has been created and will
hopefully start a nice discussion about this topic. The mailinglist is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] afaik. Once we have a nice idea about where we want
to go (sic), a GLEP will probably follow for those who don't want to follow
the mailinglist but do want to know what we will be/are doing.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
[1] http://kb.redhat.com
[2] http://support.microsoft.com
[3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102200
[4] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-462377.html
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