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Bug 96845

Summary: Make the Wedge ATI faq official
Product: [OLD] Docs-user Reporter: Chris Bainbridge (RETIRED) <chrb>
Component: ATI FAQAssignee: Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) <swift>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement CC: docs-team, wedge__
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Other   
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Description Chris Bainbridge (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-23 03:55:49 UTC
The ATI faq maintained by Wedge at http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html is way better than the official gentoo one at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml. Please bring Wedge in as a documentation developer and make it the offical one.
Comment 1 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-23 04:33:05 UTC
You do not need to be a Gentoo dev to author and maintain a document.
Please have a look at our policy (http://gdp.gentoo.org/doc/doc-policy.xml) to
know more if you want to.

Wedge's doc could be used instead of ours if he releases it under the cc-by-sa
license. Then it can be GuideXMLified, either by Wedge himself if he wants to
give it a try, or by any doc dev.
Comment 2 Wedge_ 2005-06-29 05:28:26 UTC
I'd have no problem with using that license, but my FAQ wouldn't be a drop-in
replacement for the existing one - it's focused on the ATI binary drivers and so
wouldn't help people using the "radeon" driver on older cards. 
Comment 3 Chris Bainbridge (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-29 05:48:56 UTC
Well its title is "Gentoo Linux ATI FAQ" so it should cover everything Gentoo
and ATI related - either merge the FAQs, or change the name, and have a
placeholder pointing to the two seperate faqs.
Comment 4 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-07-18 07:01:55 UTC
I've linked to the FAQ from the ATI FAQ. There isn't really a point in
duplicating the FAQ if the Wedge FAQ is well maintained (which appears to be
happening quite well).

If Wedge ever stops maintaining it, we'd be glad to host and keep it on
gentoo.org. Or, if Wedge doesn't mind putting the updates in through bugzilla,
we would be glad to have it on gentoo.org officially.