[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Official Installation guide needs your help!

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:20:37PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:33:49PM -0500, Dusty Phillips wrote:
> >> 2009/2/6 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> >> > Hey guys,
> >> > I wanted to make you aware of the following:
> >> > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13140
> >> >
> >> > The "Official Installation Guide" is severely outdated (the wiki page
> >> > still mentions "i686 optimized").
> >>
> >> As one of the two people who was once on Arch's only attempt at an
> >> official documentation team, and as one of several people who
> >> contributed many of the first articles to the wiki, I have this to say
> >> on the topic:
> >>
> >> Drop the official install guide.
> >>
> >> We know our wiki is well-maintained and well organized, and it seems
> >> to do that by itself without much developer interference. Go wiki!
> >> Originally, when we first set the wiki up Dennis, Judd, and I felt
> >> that the official install guide should be more... well... official.
> >> But its out of date, its always out of date, and there are wiki texts
> >> that are not out of date. Now, seeing how our wiki experiment has
> >> exceeded our hopes and expectations,  I'd say that the install guide
> >> (drop the 'official') should be community maintained as are all our
> >> wiki pages. It will improve. When its time for a release, "somebody
> >> official" should read through it, ensure its accurate, convert it to
> >> plaintext and put it on the iso.
> >>
> >> Dusty
> >
> > I agree with the above for the most part. The only "problems" with the
> > Beginners Guide, which is the only up to date and worth of being
> > included anywhere guide is that its too "wikified". eg. references
> > "go here" with a link to another wiki page. It would definately take
> > less time to convert it into something less dependant on the wiki than
> > refactoring the official guide.
> > Also theres references to eg. like Loui said yaourt which should
> > probably go (?)
> > Also the official guide is linked from all over the place. archlinux.org
> > wiki.archlinux.org + its part of the iso. Should those change to link
> > the beginners guide? Should the Beginners Guide change its name to the
> > Arch Linux Handbook for example?
> > FTR I had always been in favour of maintaining 1 guide from the beginning.
> 
> I'm for changing the name to "Arch Linux Handbook" and maintaining one
> guide. It seems simpler. But we should take care to include references
> to unofficial tools and things somewhere else - i.e. the "install
> yaourt" stuff

Im sure Misfit138 will be happy, as he meant to that himself. :)
-- 
Greg

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