Current status of this is in the Talk page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Docs_Project_mission_statement
* One point is that we do document technology recommendations;
* However, those recommendations should come from the developers, we
just document them;
No objections to my recommendation for a new mission statement, other
than un-specifying tools (wiki), which I agree with, and consideration
about the technology recommendations.
My conclusion is to include language such as, "we document technology
recommendations." Here's the reasoning - you may be an expert and
making a recommendation, but that is as an expert; the _team's_
mission is to document experts. Compare to how Wikipedia requires a
reference; an expert cannot come and say, "I know this should be
such-and-so," they have to point at another article somewhere where
they as an expert declare such-and-so. This method prevents the
documenters from having to judge the expertise level of experts. We
ask other teams for their information, they decide amongst themselves
who knows best and what are the right answers, and pass it over.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Docs_Project_mission_statement#Revise...
Revised final proposal
The mission of the Fedora Documentation Project is to provide
documentation to users and contributors to improve the overall usage
and experience of Fedora. We do that by overseeing
community-maintained content, explaining the usage of certain pieces
of software or systems, and documenting technology recommendations
and for special events (releases, etc). In pursuit of this work, the
Docs Project creates and works with 100% free/libre and open source
software, content, tools, and processes to create a reusable
documentation system that is buildable from source by anyone and
free forever.
Any final thoughts here on list?
- Karsten
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:54:09PM -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
We have a mission as a sub-project:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_mission_statement
The mission of the Fedora Documentation Project is to provide
documentation to users and developers to improve the overall usage
of Fedora. We do that by explaining the usage of certain pieces of
software or systems, provide written accounts of special events
(releases, etc), and provide recommendations on setting of software
or systems (security, performance, etc).
At a few reads, I don't really recognize any of the content. It has a
few sentences that introduce newer ideas than I recall being in
there. One is welcome in my mind (special events), one is an odd duck
(provide recommendations).
Also, some content is missing that I recall from before. The gist
was, the project has a goal to produce 100% FLOSS content, tools, and
processes. This goal fits in to the overall Fedora Project objective
of being entirely rebuildable from source.
Anyone know the history of the transition of the mission content? Was
this discussed and I missed it?
Otherwise, I'd like to discuss this mission statement.
I posted some questions on these right here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Docs_Project_mission_statement
With a recommendation for an update here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Docs_Project_mission_statement#Recomm...
Your thoughts are appreciated. It's _our_ mission, after all.
- Karsten
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