And how is any of this conversation helping Devuan sort out
documentation for the Chimaera release?

The revised list needing assessment is:

https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/

General information (will need to be updated to Chimaera at the least)
Devuan without D-Bus (is this still possible?)
D-Bus free software (quite possibly out of date)
Minimal xorg install
Minimal XFCE install

Thanks,
golinux