Denis Dupeyron wrote: > On 3/3/07, Daniel Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Right now, installing Gentoo is a chore, and the many wonderful >> choices of Gentoo end up making the install rather complicated. So I >> definitely support ideas to help make our installation process >> better/streamlined and less confusing. There are a lot of easy little >> things that could be done. > > What do you think of a simplified handbook ? One that presents a lot > fewer choices to the user, in order to be less confusing. I don't mean > replacing the current handbook which is one great piece of work, but > writing a "Gentoo in 10 easy steps" kind of guide. > > One of us may even have written one already. If not, I'm willing to > write or help writing one if that's considered a good idea.
Next time, read the documentation first. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml We've several quickstart/faq-type guides, and an alternate installation howto. Man, I wish more developers would read the documentation, or at least bother to get a general idea of what we have. There are some good resources to be found with even minimal searching. Anyway, re-writing the handbooks for multiple releases? Oh, hell no. It's an incredible amount of work even with several GDP devs helping out to get it ready for each point release, let alone when most of the team is inactive, busy with real life, or otherwise unavailable. Doing it nightly, weekly, or even monthly? That ain't gonna work. And don't talk about "completely unsupported, so no need to write docs". The main purpose here seems to be for hardware functionality, and that changes from release to release. From trivial things like s/dobladecenter/doslowusb to major things like new boot parameters and RAID modules, to say nothing of how networking and baselayout change. It's irresponsible to say to users, "Here, download this if you want to, but you have to figure out how the heck it works, because we're not telling, nyah nyah!" Users: "WTF no docs? Gentoo sux! YOU sux!" So from the standpoint of the most active GDP member who'd have to write the HBs 200 hours a week to keep up, it ain't gonna work too well. :)
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