On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:24 PM, AllenJB <gentoo-li...@allenjb.me.uk> wrote: > The situation with the Gentoo Handbook is quite frankly getting beyond a > joke for those of us donating our time to help users. > > I have tried to bring up the issues on the docs team list but pretty > much get shot down and told everything is fine and dandy. > > For example, quoteth the Handbook at: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5 > Most PC users should use the stage3-i686-2008.0.tar.bz2 stage3 archive. > > This results in users starting out with a version of portage that > doesn't understand EAPI-2. Guess what happens next. > > I personally would happily donate my time to working on the docs, if > only it didn't involve a markup language nobody else uses.
You're in luck, the Beacon project has perfected it's Django branch which is now nearly ready for deployment. I think this is a far better option than converting all of the existing XML docs into Wiki and alienating an entire team. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan GNOME+Mozilla Team, Gentoo
