Project:Handbook

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Handbook
Description The Handbook project is responsible for maintaining Gentoo's official handbook.
Project email handbook@gentoo.org
IRC channel #gentoo-wiki (webchat)
Lead(s) none
Last elected: 2022-07-18
Member(s)
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Parent Project Wiki
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After many essential and necessary years of service the Gentoo Documentation Project (GDP) has fulfilled its purpose.[1][2]

As a platform, the wiki has enabled every Gentoo developer (not just those in the previous 'Documentation team') and many in the community to maintain Gentoo documentation. Most of the articles produced by the former documentation team are in publicly editable namespaces.

In order to clarify who will continue to assume responsibility for the Gentoo Handbook, the Handbook project was created as a sub-project of the Wiki project. The Handbook contains Gentoo's official and crucial installation instructions, since it is risky to put official installation documentation into publicly editable namespaces.

Suggestions for Handbook improvements can be left on each section's related discussion page. Among other areas of contribution, members of the Handbook project will make it a priority to respond to these critiques.

Trusted community contributors

Starting in 2024, the Handbook project will, at its discretion, allow certain community members to fill the role of handbook editor. These individuals have made positive impact and helpful contributions around the wiki at large or particularly via discussions on handbook pages. They must be approachable in the wiki's IRC channel (#gentoo-wiki (webchat)) to discuss changes from the wiki project community or developers and continue to make contributions to maintain this role.

Due to the handbook being Gentoo's premier document, the Handbook project may remove handbook editor privilege any time. This may include accounts which reach an timeout due to inactivity.

Handbook editor list
Name Role Start date End date Notes
Brian Evans (Grknight) Handbook editor 2024-01-11 TBD Former dev and trusted contributor. Always makes things better.
Needle Handbook editor 2024-01-11 TBD Community member
Christopher Fore (Xarvatium) Handbook editor 2024-01-05 TBD Community member
Zen (Zen desu) Handbook editor 2024-01-05 TBD Community member

Goals

The goals of this project are listed below.

Long term / Recurring

These goals will be with us each year:

2024

Applied changes to handbooks can now be discovered at Handbook:Main Page/Changelog. Rationale and instructions for maintaining the changelog are detailed here.

Changes that are intended, but not yet implemented in the handbooks are in the change backlog.

Change backlog

  • Close open discussions in Handbook namespace.
  • Fix/update the disk partitioning sections of the amd64 and x86 Handbooks. Cover:
    • GPT with BIOS boot partition (Legacy mobo's will support GPT). Resources: 1, 2, 3 - Won't fix. It's too niche a setup.
  • Fix wireless network section wireless networking section. Is it even possible to use wpa_supplicant / iwd on in the official minimal and admin live images?
    • Wireless does work with net-setup, however SSID names are not discoverable...
  • Migrate links in the Handbook to use the new {{Link}} template so that translations can work properly.
  • Terminology update: Live CD, Live DVD to "live image". See bug #903551.
  • Add instructions for creating USB-based live image from Linux. See bug #902813. Added by Zen (zen_desu) here: Special:Diff/1273365/1273604.
  • Add systemd-networkd instructions for basic DHCP and static IP addressing.
  • Add a section on system timer management.
  • Adjust Portage binary host section here: Handbook:Parts/Working/Features#Binary_package_support

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