Ethdocs isn't maintained

[jamesray1]

There are 33 open PRs at the moment, starting from 21 Jun 2017, not including only one in 2016 that has conflicts.

[sneg55]

I've tried to raise this question, but it seems no one cares about it.

[jamesray1]

I've created an unlicense for this repo in a PR here, so that the repo can be forked and modified by anyone, e.g. in this repo here.

[paulvi]

@jamesray1
OK cloning a repository that is not active enough is fine, now at https://github.com/Ethereum-community/homestead-guide

But how about updating https://ethereum-homestead.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ?

[jamesray1]

@paulvi TBH I haven't maintained https://github.com/Ethereum-community/homestead-guide either. I think having a wiki is a better approach, at least if there is nobody who is willing to make sure all changes are moderated. https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki. Additionally now that Constantinople has been merged and we are now in part 1 of Metropolis, the Homestead guide is best used as a historical reference, IMO. The wiki is preferable for maintaining. If there are concerns with grafitti the content could be moved to a more moderated or moderatable wiki, e.g. like Bitcoin wiki.

Additionally the license for this repo was changed to CC BY-SA-4.0, so anyone should be able to edit it without having copyright issues now. I can add others as a contributor to that repo, however I suggest talking to maintainers here to discuss being added as a contributor to that repo, if interested. You could make a PR to update that page.

[paulvi]

Just learned that https://ethereum-homestead.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ = http://ethdocs.org/en/latest/

and while this repository says that

Legacy Docs
Ethereum Wiki: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki

That is wiki is legacy, in fact https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki is still being updated.

So the first problem seems what is actually place for documentation?

[paulvi]

@jamesray1 Can you rename this issue to "this repository (Ethdocs) isn't maintained"
or even "THIS REPOSITORY (Ethdocs.org) IS NOT MAINTAINED"

[paulvi]

referencing @pirapira Yoichi Hirai who could do latest PR merges.

[jamesray1]

@paulvi it may be a stretch to say that it is not maintained, maintainers may maintain it, albeit it may require prompting. I'll close this issue.

[pirapira]

I've been prompted. Currently six PRs are open, and I've left a comment on every one of them.

[jamesray1]

I would say that https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki is a more appropriate place for documentation. Vitalik Buterin, myself and others edit it. And anyone can freely edit it without having to be added as a collaborator to the repo or require collaborators to review PRs.

Yoichi, sorry to make it look like I was blaming you, note that I did say it it may require prompting. I haven't looked into the context.

[jamesray1]

Regarding the legacy doc reference to the wiki I made a PR for that: #440.

[jamesray1]

I also updated that PR to refer to the wiki as an alternative to this guide.