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Sven Vermeulen | 27 Mar 2012 21:05

Moving stuff to Gentoo Wiki?

Hi guys,

As the GDP isn't as large as it used to be (I think we have 2 to 4 active
participants/developers currently, coming from a 20+ situation) we might
want to consider moving documents we can't handle currently onto the Gentoo
Wiki. Most of us either don't know the technologies described in it too
well, or we need some help from the community...

License-wise, this should be okay, as there is a version-up clause in the
CC-BY-SA license most documents use. It would also allow us to focus on the
installation instructions and, who knows, have some input for the Gentoo
Wiki Knowledge base at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Knowledge_Base:Main_Page


Thoughts on this?

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen

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Aaron W. Swenson | 27 Mar 2012 21:10

Re: Moving stuff to Gentoo Wiki?


On 03/27/2012 03:05 PM, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> As the GDP isn't as large as it used to be (I think we have 2 to 4
> active participants/developers currently, coming from a 20+
> situation) we might want to consider moving documents we can't
> handle currently onto the Gentoo Wiki. Most of us either don't know
> the technologies described in it too well, or we need some help
> from the community...
> 
> License-wise, this should be okay, as there is a version-up clause
> in the CC-BY-SA license most documents use. It would also allow us
> to focus on the installation instructions and, who knows, have some
> input for the Gentoo Wiki Knowledge base at
> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Knowledge_Base:Main_Page 
> 
> Thoughts on this?
> 
> Wkr, Sven Vermeulen
> 

I am for it.

Provided that some pages can be marked editable by developers only.

Aaron

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Paweł Hajdan, Jr. | 27 Mar 2012 21:21

Re: Moving stuff to Gentoo Wiki?

On 3/27/12 9:05 PM, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> As the GDP isn't as large as it used to be (I think we have 2 to 4 active
> participants/developers currently, coming from a 20+ situation) we might
> want to consider moving documents we can't handle currently onto the Gentoo
> Wiki. Most of us either don't know the technologies described in it too
> well, or we need some help from the community...

Sounds good. For some reason people like wikis...

I generally prefer GDP, but it's obviously not possible to have 4 people
handle the same load as 20 people. By the way, I think that after your
return Sven the GDP can attract more contributors.

> License-wise, this should be okay, as there is a version-up clause in the
> CC-BY-SA license most documents use. It would also allow us to focus on the
> installation instructions and, who knows, have some input for the Gentoo
> Wiki Knowledge base at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Knowledge_Base:Main_Page
> 

Would the licensing also allow eventually taking the wiki articles and
adding them to GDP?

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Sven Vermeulen | 27 Mar 2012 21:37

Re: Moving stuff to Gentoo Wiki?

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:21:39PM +0200, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
> I generally prefer GDP, but it's obviously not possible to have 4 people
> handle the same load as 20 people. By the way, I think that after your
> return Sven the GDP can attract more contributors.

I'm no Messiah, and I'm grumpy. Two things not in favor of that 

> > License-wise, this should be okay, as there is a version-up clause in the
> > CC-BY-SA license most documents use. It would also allow us to focus on the
> > installation instructions and, who knows, have some input for the Gentoo
> > Wiki Knowledge base at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Knowledge_Base:Main_Page
> > 
> 
> Would the licensing also allow eventually taking the wiki articles and
> adding them to GDP?

Yes, we recently support the same version as on the Wiki.

Moving however does have its implications. Handling translations still needs
to be sought out/through, although I can imagine that most translation teams
also don't have the power of an entire army at their disposal to handle
translations. And especially not for wiki's.

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen