Stuart Herbert | Gentoo

I’ve started converting the Developers’ Guide to Gentoo Overlays into GuideXML. Most of the content is written, but I’m at an early stage of marking up the document. If you have any feedback on the doc, or any questions that it doesn’t answer, please let me know, and I’ll use it to improve the doc.

<rant>I’d forgotten just how much I hate, loathe and detest GuideXML, and the Gentoo Documentation Project’s total and abject failure at providing tools to take away the pain; working on the formatting this morning for the doc reminded me Roll on the day we finally ditch this, and join the rest of the world in simply using XHTML instead. Maybe then it won’t take longer to mark up a document than it does to write it in the first place! (Or alternatively, move to a wiki like other distributions have done)</rant>

I’ve just added an ebuild for activeCollab to the Gentoo Web-Apps overlay, in the experimental branch.

activeCollab is shaping up to be an open-source alternative to 37 Signals’ Basecamp, written in PHP instead of Rails.

Enjoy!