Re: [Nix-dev] Regarding the Wiki

2016-01-10 Thread Anderson Torres
Why not to unofficialize wiki? It can be hosted in a site like wikia, with no official interference or support of NixOS staff. It would free some resources on official site and be better maintained. Also, we can use Stack Exchange to answer questions, and the configurations files could be hosted

Re: [Nix-dev] Regarding the Wiki

2016-01-10 Thread Mateusz Czaplinski
Being a beginner to Nix myself, I want to join in saying that as of now, the wiki *is hugely helpful to me*. The manual(s) *do* have a lot of good stuff and I like them very much, that's for sure, but the wiki totally does too. And I can't really remember finding any advice there that would be

Re: [Nix-dev] Regarding the Wiki

2016-01-10 Thread Jonathan Glines
2016/01/10 午前6:57 "Anderson Torres" : > > Why not to unofficialize wiki? It can be hosted in a site like wikia, IINM, Wikia only hosts fandom sites for things like movie franchises. > with no official interference or support of NixOS staff. > It would free some

[Nix-dev] Regarding the Wiki

2016-01-09 Thread Profpatsch
We have basically decided to shut it down soon (™), right? Just now I tried to set up my printer again. For that I first looked at docs and the source, which didn’t provide any helpful info, and then I found the article on generating the correct Cups files here: https://nixos.org/wiki/Printers

Re: [Nix-dev] Regarding the Wiki

2016-01-09 Thread Jonathan Glines
2016-01-09 17:44 GMT-07:00 Profpatsch : > We have basically decided to shut it down soon (™), right? > > Just now I tried to set up my printer again. > For that I first looked at docs and the source, which didn’t > provide any helpful info, and then I found the article on

Re: [Nix-dev] Regarding the Wiki

2016-01-09 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 01/10/2016 02:47 AM, Jonathan Glines wrote: >> > If we dissolved the wiki, we would need to tranfer all that knowledge. >> > But should we all pack it into nixos-help? > This is the first time I've heard this; I missed the thread where they > decided to shut it down. As I understand it, the