On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Karsten Wade <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwade@redhat.com">kwade@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:36:15PM -0500, <a href="mailto:susan_lists@ties.org">susan_lists@ties.org</a> wrote:<br>
> Matthew, Betty, et al<br>
><br>
> What is the status of the user's guide?<br>
> I wanted to help more but I haven't gotten a FC9 box put together to run<br>
> through fact checking for you. :(<br>
<br>
</div>We're nearly there with the F9, so it might be fine to go ahead with<br>
F10 for you?<br>
<br>
Or a virtualized instance might help.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div> Hmm... if I had more memory in that old laptop I've been using. :)<br>And I found my livecd but only helps with gnome which is mostly done. <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> I would like to contribute to the FC10 version though - specifically I would<br>
> like to expand on Managing Photos<br>
> to include some screen shots and reference some other included software and<br>
> options.<br>
<br>
</div>That sounds good, although I'll give you the usual caveat about<br>
screenshots and why we eschew them:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/StyleGuide/FedoraSpecific#Screenshots_and_Images" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/StyleGuide/FedoraSpecific#Screenshots_and_Images</a><br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>Fair enough. A number of other sections should be trimmed of some of the screenshots too then. <br>That is something else I can help with in moving to FC10 - update or remove screenshots in users guide.<br>
[laubersm makes note, welcomes nudges if she forgets]<br><br>I do know a lot of users that need encouragement to install and try something and a screen shot or two often catches their interests. I will look into adding a reference to the upstream project's screenshots to address this need. The only problem with that is back to version mismatches.<br>
<br>Also in the middle of a lot of steps screenshots help a new user check that they got to the correct place. I agree that they are NOT needed for every step and they are often used too much.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> Will that be done in the wiki? Or straight in XML from a git repo?<br>
> I'm good with either - just let me know where the FC10 version is located as<br>
> soon as you get it moved over.<br>
<br>
</div>That is a good question that Matthew and others need to think about.<br>
Once the initial F9 User Guide is converted, it might be easier to do<br>
the F10 update directly in XML.<br>
<br>
However, history around here has shown that you get a *lot* more<br>
contributors when you draft in the wiki. If the conversion process<br>
can be brought down to a few hours or so, then doing the work in the<br>
wiki makes more sense -- you get more collaboration, more visibility<br>
in to the work in progress, and so forth.</blockquote><div><br>+1<br><br>I saw a user guide git location <a href="http://git.fedoraproject.org/git/?p=docs/user-guide.git;a=summary">http://git.fedoraproject.org/git/?p=docs/user-guide.git;a=summary</a><br>
Is this where the XML should go?<br>I'm new to git - does it get branched under here for FC9 or should it be named FC9 and a new one for FC10 in parallel?<br>Where did the FC8 stuff end up? <br>[laubersm knows she has not been paying attention to all the locations]<br>
<br>-Susan<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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- Karsten<br>
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