[arch-releng] official installation guide

[Dieter Plaetinck]

Desmond, can you please put the installation guide back?
I sent the mail below to arch-releng but I think I forgot to send
it to you too.  It includes my reasoning.
Furthermore, the page is locked so that helps people from "accidentially contributing"

Dieter

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:26:08 +0200
Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:

> Continuing this on arch-releng ML.
> This started with a PM from me to Desmond on the wiki.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:13:14 -0400
> Desmond Cox <desmondgc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Dieter,
> > 
> > Removing the guide from the wiki was discussed (albeit briefly) on
> > the arch-releng mailing list:
> > 
> > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2011-June/001805.html
> > 
> > ... specifically in this post:
> > 
> > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2011-June/001829.html
> > 
> > There seemed to be little or no objection to removing the guide at
> > the time. Rather, the majority opinion appeared to be in favour of
> > merging the guides (albeit by a small margin).
> > 
> > I apologize for not announcing this change more prominently first.
> > How would you like to proceed?
> > 
> > -- Des
> > 
> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Dieter be <dieter at plaetinck.be>
> > wrote:
> > > I noticed you removed the official installation guide.
> > > Please don't do that, at least not without asking first.
> > > I prefer to keep the page on the wiki like it was, it seems you
> > > have a different opinion, but before doing something drastic like
> > > this, you should IMHO discuss it first, so that other developers
> > > can cast their opinion.
> > >
> > > Dieter
> > >
> > > --
> > > This e-mail was sent by Dieter be to Pointone by the "E-mail
> > > user" function at ArchWiki.
> > >
> 
> 
> Rereading that discussion, it seems
> - no agreement whatsoever was reached.
> - i raised some counter arguments about the suggested approach(es),
> which were not addressed.
> 
> Here's what I suggest:
> - you put the page back
> - if you think really lots of effort is wasted by users not clearly
> seeing the page is not maintained through the wiki, we can make that
> a bit clearer (i.e. in the page header)
> - all contributions are welcome through git.
> specifically, let me know if the i8n patch @
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22088 looks good to you.
> 
> 
> Dieter