FDSCo results
by Karsten Wade
With a slight delay for the holidays to get the results :), the
following persons will be staying or joining the Fedora Documentation
Steering Committee (FDSCo):
Bart Couvreur
John Babich
Jared Smith
Congratulations to those chosen. All candidates are doing great work in
Fedora Docs, and by virtue of that are already leaders within the
project. When we next have a round of formal elections, I hope you all
consider running again.
We'll have our first FDSCo meeting after the new year.
Members - let's work out a meeting time. To start, we need to refresh
our matrix:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/SteeringCommittee/MeetingTimeMa...
You can refer to the old one[1] for what you put in last time. Our goal
is to pick a meeting time or two; we can alternate between then, if that
works. Another option is to have two meetings a month and do more
preparation and work in them. Open for discussion!
Thanks - Karsten
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BobJensen/MeetingTimes
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15 years, 11 months
DUG
by dan＠new2linux.com
Hello all,
It's been a busy couple weeks and I haven't had much time to get much
work done on the DUG. I'm going on a business trip for a couple days and
had planned on spending the weekend catching up on the DUG. IIRC there
was talk of having the DUG complete by sometime next week? What needs to
be done?
Regards,
Dan O'Brien
15 years, 11 months
The Brennan Home Server HOWTO
by Timothy Murphy
Miles Brennan said:
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Although the document was written to suit Fedora Core, I tried to
maintain generic configuration and commands where possible so other
distros could also benefit from it. Also stayed away from the GUIs.
Converting the plain HTML version of the document to wiki format was
much more painful than first anticipated. I wanted to keep the feel of
the original HOWTO styled document, as I believe they are much easier to
read and follow than the current wiki construct. However the wiki code
does not easily support the formatting of tables, cells, preformatted
text and other basis formatting. Working in RAW wiki code was very time
consuming.
Here is the draft of the HOWTO I worked on:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/ServerInstallationGuide
I installed moinmoin on my own server to work on the formatting issues a
little easier and found I needed to make some significant changes to the
CSS for the document to look and feel the way I wanted it to. It was
also mentioned at the time that FDP would be moving to a Plone and Zope
based system, making these type of migrations easier. Although I had no
experience with these two applications, I was happy to try something
new. I eventually gave up on transferring the documentation because the
new system has not been implemented and I found the wiki frustrating.
If FDP is still willing to accept the documentation, I am happy to
change the licensing and Tim is prepared to start some work on it.
Perhaps we start a new thread on updating the HOWTO and moving it into
the FDP.
Open to suggestions.
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I'm not quite sure if I am the Tim referred to here,
but if I am then I would be happy to try my hand at bringing the HOWTO
into the Fedora Documentation Project.
On the content side, there are a couple of points that I wondered about:
1. You talk a little about PPPoE in chapter 5.
Is this still necessary?
I had the impression that all *DSL modems now do this for you,
and basically give an Ethernet connection to the Internet?
2. Does one have to understand IPtables any more (chapter 6)?
I use shorewall, which seems to me to make this bit of life much easier.
Am I right in thinking shorewall is more or less the default Fedora firewall
nowadays?
3. Do people still use FTP (chapter 14)?
4. I wonder if a chapter on SVN might be worth while?
But these are probably better discussed off the list,
if indeed I am given the task of trying to bring your HOWTO
(and it would remain your HOWTO) into the FDP?
Tim
15 years, 11 months
copying+pasting screen examples
by Murray McAllister
Hi,
I am trying to re-do the DNS section for use with RPMs instead of
tarball. I have just noticed that I can't correctly copy and paste the
examples I have done using {{{ }}}. I assume these will be converted
to <screen> tags eventually, maybe the problem will go away then.
For example, copying the /etc/named.conf options section from
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AdministrationGuide/Servers/DN...
appears as the following in vim:
options {
directory "/etc/bind";
allow--query {any;};
recursion no;
pid--file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
zone--statistics yes;
statistics-f-ile "/etc/bind/namedstats.log";
};
There are double "-" characters, however these characters did not
appear when I copied them from vim into here :( . These options will
not be valid when double "-" characters are used. I'm not sure if this
is a huge problem, but I thought it would be ncie if people could copy
and paste these samples to get a basic working configuration before
changing it to suit their needs. I was thinking of putting a warning
to look out for this, but I thought it would look sloppy.
Has anyone had this problem before?
Kind Regards,
Murray.
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15 years, 11 months
wiki questions, Moin versions, and click-through CLA
by Karsten Wade
Mike and other fellow Fedorans:
We've discussed this a small amount on f-infrastructure-list, and even
more on IRC.
Can we run a beta of Moin 1.6 so we can get the click-through CLA?
What do you want to do about the wiki, in general?
The poor wiki beast. It sits in the middle of all of us, and while
Infrastructure owns it operationally ("keep the lights on"), who owns it
spiritually?
Should that be Fedora Docs?
Could that be Fedora Docs?
Be careful, those may be different answers. :)
What would such an ownership/stewardship role mean?
For one, we would have to push through the click-through CLA and enable
an army of people to own and help maintain page quality. As Wikipedia
has learned before us.
For other thoughts here, I open the floor to you all ...
- Karsten
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15 years, 11 months
Fedora Docs Platform - Roles
by Jonathan Steffan
So yes. More Plone questions. Role = User class = Group membership in
FAS
Who are going to be our editors? Are they "gods" over content objects?
Do we have multiple level of editors or do we just say "you're on the
team... go edit"?
Do we have multiple tiers of workflow permissions (who can move a
document between states, for example) or do we just say "wow, you'll
help? here are your permissions"?
>From what I've taken from MikeM we will want to require special
permissions for users to even be able to create content, is this
another role?
Do we need "workspaces" in the sense "create anything here, we can all
edit it we can all see it, but the public can't"?
Do we lock down plone to be super secure and do very little at first
and then open it up with new releases? (Yes, this causes me a little
more work making sure changes are upstream compatible but i think this
concept is worth it)
What is the state of LDAP queries to FAS?
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15 years, 11 months
At last
by Karl Larsen
I followed the instructions for putting a ascii enclosed key into
mit on their web site and it worked. At least it said it did.
Karl
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15 years, 11 months
more observations on fedora release notes
by Robert P. J. Day
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/sn-Multimedia.html
"GNOME users can burn directly from the Nautilus file manager, choose
the gnomebaker or graveman packages ..."
- graveman? yum doesn't know anything about graveman in the standard
repos.
"KDE users can use the robust k3b package for these tasks ..."
- you don't need to be running KDE to use k3b. but you knew that.
rday
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15 years, 11 months
News of the Election Results
by John Babich
Fedora Docs Steering Committee Members:
What are the results of the recent FDSCo election?
I would like to publish them in the FWN for this week.
Best Regards,
John Babich
FWN Beat Writer, Fedora Docs Project
15 years, 11 months
