toolchain rock-up
by Karsten Wade
We've been talking about rocking up our toolchain by integrating
Publican[1]. We need to set up some tests to be able to confirm if the
tool does what we need, technically, socially, and communally.
Please add yours to the list below, then we can throw it in a wiki page
to start working against.
= Technical =
* Does it fulfill all the current tool's capabilities?
- These need to be defined and listed as specific tests
* Is it built on sound technology with a future?
* ...
= Social =
* Is there an active upstream?
* Is upstream responsive to Fedora Docs?
* Is the upstream work in the open?
* Can anyone (theoretically) join the upstream work?
* Is there a role Fedora Docs should take in the upstream?
* ...
= Communal =
* Is there a Fedora packager?
* Is it maintained for EPEL as well?
* Do other parts of Fedora want to use this tool?
* Is there value-add from Fedora Docs to make it worth promoting the
integrated set (Fedora Docs + Publican)?
* Does Fedora Docs want to create and maintain a "Content Producer
Spin"?
* ...
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16 years
Self-Introduction: Balaji
by "G"
Hi everyone
My name is Balaji and i live in chennai which is a city in India. i am
a software developer working for a private firm in chennai. I ve been
contribtuting to fedora as a member of the bug-triage team, Testing
packages from the bodhi repository and also as one of the
Fedora-Ambassadors for chennai. I ve not yet got an opportunity to
work on the docs section in an other project till date, though i ve
submitted a how-to to Fedora unity when i was just an user of the
fedora :).This is the How-To which i had written some months back.(
http://fedorasolved.org/installation-solutions/UML-Linux-Install ).Now
that i ve become part of the contributors team i would like to extend
my contributions to the fedora-docs community by
writing/editing/reviewing the documents and give suggestions and help
in all ways i possibly could. I am also looking at areas where Fedora
could provide more documents to the users/developers too. I am excited
to be part of this journey and this team and really look forward to
working with this team.
PS: I am sorry Karsten. I had applied for the CVS docs account few
days back and then couldnt complete the required formalities.
Cheers,
Balaji
16 years
Re: F10?
by Eric Christensen
I just updated the SIG list. All the SIGs that I could find are now on the list.
Eric
>
>On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 21:04 +0000, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>
>> All you need to do to be counted is to show up at #fedora-admin (and/or
>> fedora-infrastructure-list) and let people know you're interested. If
>> you stay in touch with Murray, also on this list, you guys can team up
>> for extra superpower! ;-)
>
>OTOH, we do need to track what we are doing in this regard:
>
>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Tasks/SIGSupport
>
>But ... there is a mix of what are SIGs and what are subprojects. We'll
>have to sort this out over time.
>
>- Karsten
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Re: F10?
by Paul W. Frields
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 23:44 -0400, Ricky Zhou wrote:
> On 2008-05-19 10:27:52 PM, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > All in all I feel it was a good release. So my question to the team, what
> > would you all like to see over the next 6 months?
> * New wiki :-)
> * More/better documentation
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is where Jef Spaleta's role-based SIG idea, and the Docs team's new
direction, might be helpful. If we can get one or more people from Docs
hooked up with this team to help, all the work can/should be done on the
wiki.
Mike and I have talked in the past about the fact that Fedora has a
world-class infrastructure and the team to support it. If we can get
the details down on "paper," we add substantially to the proposition
that Fedora is much more than just a distro. We can have a blueprint
for any similar project, or open-source business startup, or anyone who
wants to bootstrap their own community, to go from zero to sixty in
terms of supporting that community with the tools they need for
communication, coding, and presence. Certainly that could take more
than six months, but it's a great time to get that off the ground.
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16 years
Fedora 9 release notes schedule
by Murray McAllister
Hi,
I updated https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule/9 to
reflect weekend's activities. I do not know when " XY May 2008
fedora-release-notes package RC to Fedora release engineering" is, and
someone already added " 30 May 2008 fedora-release-notes package
update ". What is the latter?
All PO files have been updated for BZ 447193, and I'm fairly confident
I didn't break any of them...
Thanks,
Murray.
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Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46 20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB
Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious) <murray.mcallister(a)gmail.com>
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16 years
New Member: Andres Villarreal, an MEE from Rice University and a self instructed "expert" in Linux
by Andres Villarreal
** My submission:
* Full legal name : Andres Villarreal
* City, Country: Bogotá, Colombia
* Computer Scientist and MEE in Computer Engineering
* Independent consultant for various small and mid size companies
* Your goals in the Fedora Project
o I am interested in helping people like me in the first steps
of making things work.
o I have suffered enough with the howto pages that are
anywhere from great to abysmal and from up to date to
obsolete, and I think Fedora is the right place to put my
experience to use.
o I am also interested in maintaining packages, but want to
start here.
* Historical qualifications
o As a self-taught Linux enthusiast I think I can see where
the documentation is just a little bit short of being
correct and useful, so I think my lack of a list of courses
is a good thing.
o I am a skilled programmer in several languages and an expert
in networking.
o And, I have better than average English skills.
* GPG KEYID and fingerprint
o pub 1024D/F6C81882 2008-05-20
Key fingerprint = 6D90 EC88 7422 A029 01E6 D790 9A44
0143 F6C8 1882
uid Andres Villarreal
<andres(a)villarrealpouw.name>
sub 2048g/BA1AF386 2008-05-20
So, please tell me if my submission has any problems and I hope we will
do some good together.
Andres Villarreal.
16 years
open account requests
by Karsten Wade
We're seeing more people joining Fedora and requesting to join various
subprojects and SIGs. I suspect the ease of FAS2 combined with the
fresh hoopla around the release has attracted people. Let's not
disappoint them by leaving their request for a group in limbo. Yet ...
Some people seem to be requesting group access without first knowing
what a group is or what they need to do, such as send a self-intro. My
suggestion is to reject those after giving them sufficient time to do
the self-intro etc.
We definitely do not want to sponsor people just because they checked a
box and clicked Submit. Save your sponsorship for people who really
mean to be there.
Also, I'm putting in an RFE for the account system to add a "reason"
field with the rejection process[1], so we can explain why someone was
rejected, such as not following the established process at
ProjectName/Join. Meanwhile, it is probably a good practice to send an
email to the person telling them they can re-apply after they follow the
per-SIG/subproject steps for account access.
- Karsten
(I am sending this duplicate email to multiple locations that need to
resolve this process.)
[1] https://fedorahosted.org/fas/ticket/50
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16 years
Persistent overlay?
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
I suggested to Luke to use something better than "persistent overlay" to
describe the amount of space alloted for storing software changes and
settings in a Live USB.
http://lewk.org/blog/liveusb-creator-2.4.html
I am not really sure what term to use as a replacement. Any suggestions
dear word smiths?
Rahul
16 years
