Introduction to Fedora Infrastructure - Fedora Classroom proposal

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi,

I have been mulling over the idea of a introductory talk to Fedora
infrastructure from the end user perspective

Fedora Account System - CLA, different groups, signing up

Wiki - How to sign up for it, some basic guidelines

Bugzilla - bugz.fedoraproject.org, very basic notes since it is already
covered in detail before

Bodhi - What it does, rel-eng signing, karma, updates vs updates-testing
repo

Koji - What it does, how to make full use of it, how not to use it

Introduction to Fedora Hosted

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Comments?

Rahul

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:08:22 +0530
Rahul Sundaram  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been mulling over the idea of a introductory talk to Fedora
> infrastructure from the end user perspective
>
> Fedora Account System - CLA, different groups, signing up
>
> Wiki - How to sign up for it, some basic guidelines
>
> Bugzilla - bugz.fedoraproject.org, very basic notes since it is
> already covered in detail before
>
> Bodhi - What it does, rel-eng signing, karma, updates vs
> updates-testing repo
>
> Koji - What it does, how to make full use of it, how not to use it
>
> Introduction to Fedora Hosted
>
> Comments?

That sounds good to me, but it might be a bit much for a single
class. Perhaps 2 classes? One more for wiki/introduction and another
one for maintainer resources like Bodhi/koji?

Thanks for stepping up to teach!
> Rahul

kevin

[David]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Rahul
Sundaram wrote:
> I have been mulling over the idea of a introductory talk to Fedora
> infrastructure from the end user perspective
>
> Fedora Account System - CLA, different groups, signing up
>
> Wiki - How to sign up for it, some basic guidelines
>
> Bugzilla - bugz.fedoraproject.org, very basic notes since it is already
> covered in detail before
>
> Bodhi - What it does, rel-eng signing, karma, updates vs updates-testing
> repo
>
> Koji - What it does, how to make full use of it, how not to use it
>
> Introduction to Fedora Hosted
>
> Comments?

My "end user perspective" [used Linux (Fedora) for 2 years of lurking
on the lists and learning]: I applaud your mulling, some topics you
suggest are an exact match to some things I'd like to know more.

Please read the rest of this e-mail as feedback giving insight into
the mind of a potential classroom participant, it is *not* a request
for assistance.

Bugzilla +1
I comprehend the importance of bug reporting. But havent done it
myself yet. Though I'm capable of the occasional bugfix/recompile
locally. I seem to be hesitant knowing correct procedure, where to
file, how much of my environment to include, which aspects of the
complicated-looking Bugzilla interface are essential vs which are not,
perhaps. To be honest I haven't quite reached that point in the road,
haven't really looked into it. So if a class helps advance that,
great. Maybe the teacher could pick some already reported simple bugs
that are examples of good Bugzilla technique and talk through the
steps of how it was filed, as a model for newbies.

Bodhi/Koji +1
I'm curious. My casual search attempts for newbie info have been
unsuccessful. If newbie info is available I cant find it amongst all
the other detail search results.

Wiki +1
I find it hard to use the wiki, particularly to get an overview of the
wiki contents, to assist exploring what might be useful to me. Maybe
there's a wiki use trick I'm unaware of. I tried looking at
"Categories" but there are 100's sorted alphabetically. It would be
great to easily see the major categories, eg if they could be
displayed sorted by number of members to show the major ones first.
I'd happily make this request for enhancement in the appropriate
place, if only I knew what that is.

+1 to separate classes also. Too much for one class IMHO.

Thanks for this opportunity to give feedback.