docs September 2006

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plone?
by Sam Folk-Williams 24 Sep '06

24 Sep '06

iirc there was talk months ago about switching from moin moin to plone. i wasn't privy to the discussions around that, i just heard it was happening. is that still planned? do we need help with that? or, was that idea scrapped? sam

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Icon extractor for linux apps
by John Babich 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

I am trying to upload icons to the wiki to add illustrations to the Desktop Users Guide. I am having trouble finding icons for several applications such as Evolution. I even downloaded the source in an attempt to locate the icons. Does any one know of a linux utility that extracts embedded icons from a linux application? I know of several such utilities for Windows. If such a utility doesn't exist, is there an alternate method to achieve the same results. Regards, John Babich

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byzanz, a screencast/desktop recorder
by Karsten Wade 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

Work has been going on with Istanbul, a desktop recorder that outputs Ogg Theora formatted screencasts. I just read up on Byzanz[1], a desktop recorder also in Extras that outputs animated GIF files. Reportedly the files are very large, so this may only be good for ~10 second screencasts. Although short, 10 seconds is enough to convey a number of interesting things to people who are looking into using Fedora. The GIF output is targeted at people with OSes that don't support Ogg formats natively. :) Just throwing something else out there to look at for screencasting. - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE, 108 Editor ^ Fedora Documentation Project Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject quaid.108.redhat.com | gpg key: AD0E0C41 ////////////////////////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

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Self introduction : Johan Cwikinski
by Johan Cwiklinski 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hello, my name is Johan Cwiklinski. I live in Douai, north of France. I'm actually unemployed but used to work in system administration (Linux), webmastering adn a few Java developments. To help the Fedora Project, I'd like to translate documentation in French ; I'm already working on it for a short while on the Wiki but there are still many documentations available only in english. I'm webmaster of a french website about open source technologies. I daily use Fedora for my personnal use and still maintain the Fedora's servers I've putted in place for my old employer, including ssh, samba, apache/php/mysql and tomcat servers. Best regards, Johan pub 1024D/8BA59F94 2006-04-17 Empreinte de la clé = A86A 1150 F0BA 5626 918A 7ED3 ECDD 81FB 8BA5 9F94 uid Johan Cwiklinski (Trasher) <johan(a)x-tnd.be> sub 2048g/9C6CFEB8 2006-04-17

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excuse me
by g.caruso＠fedoraserver.org 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Pleae excuse me: 1. message without subject; 2. message with wrong subject: Sponsor founded ..? sponsor found..! Sorry. Guido Caruso.-

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(no subject)
by g.caruso＠fedoraserver.org 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

>Benvenuto a Fedora Documentation. Thanks, Karsten. >I see you are interested in translating. If you are also interested in >writing original-language technical docs in Italian (to be translated to >English and others), we are encouraging that. This hasn't been done >yet, but there are enough Italian translator/writers in the project that >you can find an Italian editor to work with. Yes, I would like to write original technical docs for Fedora, and I can find also an italian editor for this; but perhaps it's better to do it after FC6 release. New release, new docs ;-). Guido.-

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Self-Introduction: Guido Caruso
by g.caruso＠fedoraserver.org 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

Hi, all My name is Guido Caruso from Palermo, Italy; I an engineer and I work as system administrator in Department of Hydraulic Engineering - University of Palermo. I wish to translate Fedora documentation in Italian language. I have translated some documents of Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) in Italian (PLUTO-Ildp). I am administrator of http://www.fedoraserver.org. I wrote some articles about Linux, published by Linux Magazine, an italian magazine on Linux and open-source. My computer skills are considered medium-high for my working environment as servers: web (apache and tomcat), database (mysql), mail (postfix), computing (openmosix) and others. I work from 1999 only with Red Hat and Fedora platforms. Best regards to all. pub 1024D/F7C02068 2006-09-17 Key fingerprint = 7CB0 2580 A3F9 4E35 205C 5FE8 6357 535B F7C0 2068 uid Guido Caruso <g.caruso(a)fedoraserver.org> sub 2048g/D217FD4B 2006-09-17

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List subscription and CVS
by g.caruso＠fedoraserver.org 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

Hi to all. I added myself to the group "cvsdocs" in my project account with the result that I now have an entry in my account stating "cvsdocs [...] unapproved" (https://admin.fedora.redhat.com/accounts/) There's no way for me to checkout documentation from CVS (module fedora-install-guide). Why? Best regards Guido Caruso

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Re: release-notes/devel/po fr_FR.po,1.13,1.14
by Paul W. Frields 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 15:08 -0700, Thomas Canniot wrote: > Author: mrtom > > Update of /cvs/docs/release-notes/devel/po > In directory cvs-int.fedora.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv8027 > > Modified Files: > fr_FR.po > Log Message: > translation updated Thomas, Has this translation already been done in i18n.redhat.com? You don't need to provide it here again, if so. If you're not providing Release Notes translations in i18n.rh.c, is there a way for you to make that clear on that other sytsem? I am just worried about accidentally importing the wrong translation if we have to start keeping track of them twice. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project Board: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board Fedora Docs Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject

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CVS sponsorship (trans & docs)
by Karsten Wade 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

We've stalled on making a sponsorship process for FDP CVS in hopes that the two separate CVS systems from Translation and Documentation would be combined, and we could have one process overall. This combining is not happening yet, so we need a process to carry us through. This process should fit into the overall Documentation/Translation scheme for the future. The process should have sponsors take on the job of: i. Mentoring new translators in how to translate documentation ii. Watching CVS commits for problems, etc. iii. Fixing any mistakes or dropped translations Here is an idea for a process. What is stupid about it? What is good about it? * We add steps to the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Translation page for new translators: 1. Join the language list fedora-trans-$LANG 2. Introduce yourself on that list as per Fedora Translation requirements 3. Ask for someone who does documentation translation for your language to sponsor you in Documentation CVS, then follow the steps to request cvsdocs access 4. When you self-introduce to fedora-docs-list, include the name of your sponsor and that you have requested cvsdocs access 5. Sponsor should reply to fedora-docs-list with a confirmation (ACK) 6. Start bugging us via #fedora-docs and fedora-docs-list to accept your cvsdocs access immediately * Sponsors from a language group must: - Ensure that translations go through an accuracy check (QA) - Help the new translator learn how to use the Documentation tools (build tools, CVS, etc.) - Be there to help in case of trouble with CVS or tools - You do not need to know all the answers - Your main job here is to help connect people with problems with the people who can help solve them - Think of this as a mentoring role We can either get this process or a pointer to the Wiki put into the Translation Quick Start Guide. Thoughts? - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE, 108 Editor ^ Fedora Documentation Project Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject quaid.108.redhat.com | gpg key: AD0E0C41 ////////////////////////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

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