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Il Tuesday 13 November 2007 21:05:56 Aniruddha ha scritto:
> Aniruddha

Hi Aniruddha, see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173766

Cheers,

--
Davide Cendron

Gentoo Documentation Project
Italian Lead Translator

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/it/

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 21:05 +0100, Aniruddha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that the Gentoo Linux Genkernel Guide isn't maintained
> anymore. Is there anything I can do to help?
>
> Disclaimer : This document is not valid and is not maintained
> anymore.
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/genkernel.xml

Sure. You can submit patches to the guide via our bug tracker at
http://bugs.gentoo.org and we'll fix up the guide.

The genkernel guide was (as far as I know) maintained mostly by the
previous primary genkernel maintainer before he left Gentoo. As the
current maintainer, I've spent more of my time working on the actual
code of genkernel than the documentation. As such, the documentation is
quite out-of-date and doesn't match current genkernel behavior. Even
worse, I'm modifying some of the behavior to make more sense and be
easier for the end user. Expect genkernel 3.4.9 to be quite different
from 3.4.8, without breaking compatibility. When I get around to
genkernel 3.5, things will be even more different, as we're diverging
from the older code and making several modifications that we've blocked
until now, as they were too disruptive.

At any rate, I'm willing to help you proof any changes you make and can
answer questions for you, but won't be able to actually spend the time
to make any actual changes myself.

--
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation

Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 21:05 +0100, Aniruddha wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed that the Gentoo Linux Genkernel Guide isn't maintained
>> anymore. Is there anything I can do to help?
>>
>> Disclaimer : This document is not valid and is not maintained
>> anymore.
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/genkernel.xml
>>
>
> Sure. You can submit patches to the guide via our bug tracker at
> http://bugs.gentoo.org and we'll fix up the guide.
>
> The genkernel guide was (as far as I know) maintained mostly by the
> previous primary genkernel maintainer before he left Gentoo. As the
> current maintainer, I've spent more of my time working on the actual
> code of genkernel than the documentation. As such, the documentation is
> quite out-of-date and doesn't match current genkernel behavior. Even
> worse, I'm modifying some of the behavior to make more sense and be
> easier for the end user. Expect genkernel 3.4.9 to be quite different
> from 3.4.8, without breaking compatibility. When I get around to
> genkernel 3.5, things will be even more different, as we're diverging
> from the older code and making several modifications that we've blocked
> until now, as they were too disruptive.
>
> At any rate, I'm willing to help you proof any changes you make and can
> answer questions for you, but won't be able to actually spend the time
> to make any actual changes myself.
>
>
Chris, good to hear your working on genkernel :-) . I'll file a
bugreport with the a draft for the Genkernel Guide. Can you help me by
providing the following input?

-Which features are new in genkernel and where can I find more info
about hem?
-Which features mentioned in the genkernel guide are obsolete?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Aniruddha

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 21:43 +0100, Aniruddha wrote:
> Chris, good to hear your working on genkernel :-) . I'll file a
> bugreport with the a draft for the Genkernel Guide. Can you help me by
> providing the following input?

If I had time for that, I'd go ahead and update the guide. I simply
don't have the time to verify the guide at this time. I also don't have
time to dredge through more than 2 years of code changes to try to
figure out "what's new" and "what's removed" since the guide was last
updated.

If you have specific questions, I can answer them, but I don't have time
to spend hours and hours on research. Using "genkernel --help" is your
best bet for an accurate list of what genkernel supports.

--
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation

Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 21:43 +0100, Aniruddha wrote:
>
>> Chris, good to hear your working on genkernel :-) . I'll file a
>> bugreport with the a draft for the Genkernel Guide. Can you help me by
>> providing the following input?
>>
>
> If I had time for that, I'd go ahead and update the guide. I simply
> don't have the time to verify the guide at this time. I also don't have
> time to dredge through more than 2 years of code changes to try to
> figure out "what's new" and "what's removed" since the guide was last
> updated.
>
> If you have specific questions, I can answer them, but I don't have time
> to spend hours and hours on research. Using "genkernel --help" is your
> best bet for an accurate list of what genkernel supports.
>
>
Ok, I understand :-) . I'll see what I can do. I will compare the
documentation and output of
genkernel --help this weekend.

Regards,

Aniruddha