I would second all of this I use gentoo-wiki almost everyday and it is killing me that it isnt up. I think this would be a great service if we can give it to the community.
-- W. Nick Pappin IT Staff Latah Federal Credit Union 208.874.4394 On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Steven Susbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > deface wrote: >> >> I am reaching out to the community in search of someone, or someone >> who may know someone at either TEL-X (http://www.telx.com) >> or 56Marietta (http://www.56marietta.com). I'm sure everyone on this ML >> is aware that wiki is down. It may not concern some of you, as >> it is not an official documentation site; but for the rest of us, it is >> a very helpful resource. You can read the current status of the wiki as >> thrasher7 (Mike Valstar - mikevalstar<REMOVEME>@gmail.com) blogs it. Our >> options are stated, but we hope to find another through >> this e-mail. If anyone has any sort of contact with anyone at either of >> these locations, please let me or Mike know. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> deface > > The Gentoo-Wiki and Gentoo-Portage pages are unofficial, but it would be > very nice if Gentoo was able to provide its own wiki service (and > Gentoo-Portage-like thing, packages.gentoo.org is nowhere near as > useful), possibly working with Mike on an official basis. I've always > been curious why the Foundation is passing up a great opporitunity to > have a lot of good, community based documentation especially for > projects and setups that Gentoo itself does not provide documentation > for, as well as an easy frontend for reading all about different ebuilds. > > I am unfortunately unable to help with this predicament though plan on > putting in a donation once the sites are up. It does appear he was able > to get in touch with TelX so hopefully everything gets up and running > quickly. > > -Steve > > > >
