On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 06:43:21AM -0700, yoo...@gmail.com wrote: > > Upon further reflection.. The Guix manual might not be an appropriate > place > > for such a guide. If the Guix manual isn't a good place for such a set of > > instructions, do you have any suggestions for a location (blog, etc)? > > There is this useful wiki managed by Raymond Nicholson: > https://gitlab.com/rain1/guix-wiki/wikis/home > > Although, I'd like to echo Ludovic's question, and also say that the > goal of the manual is to be completely sufficient for first-timers and > experienced users alike. > > I find the phenomenon of 3rd party wikis giving instructions on how to > use some piece of software to be a dismaying "antipattern". And, the > situation only gets worse as people send documentation to the 3rd party > wiki instead of to the software project in questoin. > I agree on the 3rd party wikis point as well, hence my willing to pick up some Texinfo and attempt submitting a patch :) > > So, please tell us of any specific shortcomings! It seems that you would > prefer "System Installation" to begin with an outline? > Now that you mention it.. Merging what I've done in to the "System Installation" section would make more sense location-wise but.. After reading the feedback here and spending some more time in IRC (which really drives home the feedback about translations and colloquialisms, thanks John) I would like to do the following: - Add a contiguous set of examples to the existing "System Installation" section (such that if you follow the examples you will almost certainly end up with a working system, even if you don't read much of anything else) - Add at least one more sub-section to "System Installation" that introduces users to extending/customizing the initial system's .scm file -- Something like a "Where to go from here? Customizing your installation." -- A chance to tease users in to Scheme programming Sound better? -- .:Justin:.
