Re: Decommissioning of the Documentation project?

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 06:01:15PM -0700, Matthew Marchese wrote:
> On 06/14/2016 09:32 AM, Nathan Zachary wrote:
> 
> > On 14/06/16 11:31, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> With the Gentoo Wiki being the sole handler of all end user (and often also
> >> development, although the Devmanual is a separate aspect but not under
> >> Documentation project anyway) we had a small talk on #gentoo-doc if there
> >> was still a need to have the documentation project as an active project.
> >>
> >> Because, you know, we're not active (beyond the wiki, which is doing great
> >> btw).
> >>
> >> I've been looking at what the project would still mean for Gentoo right now,
> >> and if that would be sufficient to keep it alive. We
> >> - have some documentation development guidelines as part of the
> >>   Project:Documentation umbrella (but which can be moved if needed)
> >> - the translation subproject underneath (but again only with a guideline for
> >>   translations)
> >>
> >> And that's basically not much, and a good reflection of how things evolved
> >> in the past few years. Just keeping it in limbo doesn't serve us well. It's
> >> a somewhat empty project, with its deliverables being implemented elsewhere.
> >> So it's definitely not a failure, on the contrary. It's finished.
> >>
> >> So personally, I wouldn't mind that we move whatever is still needed to the
> >> right location (Project:Wiki most likely) and clean up (or archive if
> >> needed) the rest.
> >>
> >> But I'm also all ears for people who have some neat and innovative ideas to
> >> do through the documentation project! So, what's your take on this?
> >>
> >> Wkr,
> >> 	Sven Vermeulen
> >>
> > I would tend to agree.  Anything that needs to be moved to the wiki can
> > be, but otherwise, having a separate repository for documentation seems
> > dated.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nathan Zachary
> >
> Although I have not been part of the docs project long (only just over a
> year) I do not see a need for two separate projects. As SwifT and I
> discussed on the IRC in the channel, I think the docs project really has
> no reason to be separate from the wiki. Since the wiki is the main
> hosting platform for hosting documentation all doc development is
> completed through that vessel.
> 
> Not to mention I haven't see any 'new' documentation written by anyone
> on the docs team since I joined. No offense. :P
> 
> Kind regards,
> Blast the maffer
> 

My contributions are done exclusively through the wiki so it's ok for me to
keep all documentation there.

Regards.