I managed to make some great progress, as you probably noticed the grub2 series is in main tree.
We still have few bugreports opened, but they are not really relevant to major usage.
The stopper issue is the lack of documentation. If you now try to install grub2 it links you to guide in my dev-space which is not really feature rich. Until this guide is somewheat feature-rich the grub2 will stay masked. So help us by filling bugs with patches to it (feel free to shamelessly steal from other wikies :))
I am also well known around by my sucking documentation skills, so don’t expect the guide magically improve from my input.
If you really care about the grub2 in gentoo just feel free to drop me mail with the doc updates, I will mostly include everything.
I would love to help with any doc updates if you want me to (being a native english speaker from Texas, I have no translation skills or understanding of German, Spanish or Russian – all of which disappeared long before I first met Linux).
I have also been using Grub2 since Ubuntu switched to it (I found it much easier to work with when running a multiboot Arch/Ubuntu/Mint/Gentoo/Windows* laptop).
And I noticed when I reconfigured my file server, I noticed that Grub2 on Gentoo is in /boot/grub2/* instead of /boot/grub/*. Was this to address a particular issue? I just installed a symbolic link from /boot/grub to /boot/grub2 so my personal scripts would continue working, so it is no big deal. I was just curious.
The rename was intentional, because this way you can have grub2 next to grub1 without any issue.
But yea it breaks most guides/scripts from 3rd parties.
Any help is really appreciated, just grab the guide and sent me fixes / updates / new sections, whatever you feel like doing :)
While I can’t help with grub2 docs myself atm, it makes me wonder if Gentoo does the right thing with devs-users relations. I’m pretty sure that what I write now is going to be only a rant without any response since the infra team has different priorities, but I cant help it …
* if users want something fixed, they use the bugzilla.
* if devs want users’ help, they blog
* evidently, not all users subscribe to the planet gentoo rss feed, and not all posts are read by everyone.
* so what we lack is a ‘reverse bugzilla’ that would assign work to the whole userbase. now, people wouldn’t just visit another bugzilla for the sake of the devs, but people do visit gentoo’s homepage a lot and they visit the forums a lot too.
* so, why not have at least a gentoo forums category for devs requesting help from users? and let the 3-5 latest requests hang on the main page? and naturally let devs blog about their problems?
oh. and we still lack an official gentoo wiki where users could contribute easily …
Well users usually don’t track anything, and those really interested watch planet.
Also forums work well for such announcement, but I don’t do much forums so I preffer blogging.
Yeah wiki is quite overdue…
Yeah, wiki is way long over due! http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/ is all we gots, and seems good enough to me.
The only reason I’m reading blogs right now is because I got bored which is highly unusual around here. I personally don’t like reading personal blogs.
As far as assigning users work, users are highly undependable! Unless Gentoo starts handing-out beer as payment! Submitting (features as) Bugs or helping to fix Bugs seems to be the most reliable way of helping. I appreciate good dev+user relations to get things done.
I usually help-out, but as far as Grub2, it’s not on my agenda unless all my computers break causing me to install from scratch and trying Grub2. And then, I might consider Funtoo if it’s stable enough.