Re: Error in instructions
by Rahul Sundaram
On 10/17/2009 09:21 PM, Kirk Charles wrote:
> Greetings,
> I have found an error in the following page for windows users
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme-burning-isos/en_US/sn-validating-fil...
>
>
> It seems that the current checksum method is SHA 256. Only hashcalc can
> do this.
> The other 2 recommended programs will not do this.
> It took me quite awhile to figure this out.
>
> Also it would be good to elaborate on how and where to find the sums to
> check against
> and to remind users
> to be sure to use the correct calculation method.
Already reported in Bugzilla. Hopefully someone in the docs team will
fix this soon.
Rahul
14 years, 6 months
Upcoming Schedule
by John Poelstra
Start End Name
Wed 30-Sep Tue 20-Oct Solicit Review and Bug Reports for Guides
Tue 20-Oct Tue 20-Oct Start One-page Release Notes: Docs & Marketing
Tue 20-Oct Tue 20-Oct Beta Release Public Availability
Tue 20-Oct Tue 20-Oct Prepare GA Release Notes
Tue 20-Oct Wed 21-Oct Create POT files for All Guides
Tue 20-Oct Tue 27-Oct Create one page Release Notes with Marketing
Mon 26-Oct Mon 26-Oct String Freeze: GA Release Notes
Mon 26-Oct Wed 28-Oct Port diff wiki content publican
Wed 28-Oct Wed 28-Oct Remind Translation POTs coming GA release notes
Mon 02-Nov Mon 02-Nov Generate GA Release Notes POT files for Translation
Tue 03-Nov Mon 09-Nov Review and correct GA Release Notes (daily
builds html)
Tue 03-Nov Mon 09-Nov Build GA release note htmls for Translation
14 years, 6 months
Beta Docs
by Eric Christensen
Are there any documents that need to be synced on docs.fp.o before the
Beta release? Please let me know ASAP if you do!
--Eric
14 years, 6 months
Requesting expertise in the field of writing.
by Adam Miller
Hello docs team,
My name is Adam Miller and I am one of the contributors who works
on the Fedora Xfce Spin and I'm currently working on our new spin wiki
page with all the info needed for the new Spin Pages that the design
team is working on, I'm no writer so I was hoping someone might lend a
bit of their talent towards cleaning up our "spin description" and
"download tab" entries[0], we (Kevin, Christoph and myself ... all
listed on the wiki page) just feel that what we want to say is being
said, but that its a tad "rough around the edges" and Kevin suggested
I come to the doc team and request their expertise, so I went to the
#fedora-docs irc channel and was directed to the mailing list, so here
I am :)
Many thanks in advance!
-Adam
[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/XFCE_Spin
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Docs Meeting 2009-10-15 Summary
by Eric Christensen
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#fedora-meeting: Docs Project Meeting - Agenda:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_meetings
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Meeting started by Sparks at 00:01:25 UTC. The full logs are available
at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-10-15/fedora-meeting...
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Meeting summary
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* Roll Call (Sparks, 00:01:34)
* Beta Release Announcement (Sparks, 00:05:22)
* f-r-n.rpm (Sparks, 00:13:28)
* Status on CMS (Zikula) (Sparks, 00:24:07)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Zikula#Module_status (Sparks,
00:24:23)
* Status on CC license rollout. (Sparks, 00:26:55)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/License_changeover_schedule
(Sparks, 00:27:04)
* Shared open-source style guide (Sparks, 00:36:46)
* LINK:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2009-June/msg00163.html
(Sparks, 00:36:55)
* Guide needs? (Sparks, 00:39:00)
* New Guides (Sparks, 00:40:02)
* Other business (Sparks, 00:41:34)
Meeting ended at 00:49:19 UTC.
Action Items
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* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* Sparks (68)
* jjmcd (41)
* rudi (14)
* ke4qqq (6)
* joat (4)
* zodbot (2)
* radsy (1)
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Docs Meeting 2009-10-15 IRC log
by Eric Christensen
00:01:25 <Sparks> #startmeeting Docs Project Meeting - Agenda:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_meetings
00:01:25 <zodbot> Meeting started Thu Oct 15 00:01:25 2009 UTC. The
chair is Sparks. Information about MeetBot at
http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot.
00:01:25 <zodbot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea
#link #topic.
00:01:34 <Sparks> #topic Roll Call
00:01:38 * Sparks
00:01:56 * ke4qqq
00:01:57 * joat .
00:01:59 * jjmcd .
00:02:15 * joat thinks Spark's calendar is just as busted as his
00:03:08 <Sparks> Good group so far
00:03:23 <Sparks> joat: My calendar is all messed up now that I'm doing an ST&E
00:03:42 * ke4qqq is in and out
00:04:00 <joat> Sparks: I'm still sans-calendar
00:04:05 <joat> waiting for account
00:04:11 * radsy shuffles in
00:04:21 * rudi is here
00:05:05 <Sparks> Okay, let's get started
00:05:22 <Sparks> #topic Beta Release Announcement
00:05:29 <Sparks> jjmcd: Go ahead, I think you added this
00:05:58 <jjmcd> Well, its no surprise, is it. We need to get working
on the release announcement
00:06:22 <jjmcd> Isn't the updated GA like a week away? Not sure the exact date
00:06:56 <jjmcd> 20th?
00:06:58 <Sparks> jjmcd: I honestly haven't had a chance to look at my
calendar in days
00:07:11 <jjmcd> hehe - yeah, I know what you mean
00:07:18 <rudi> November 17, I thought?
00:07:30 <jjmcd> SRI - i meant beta
00:08:07 <jjmcd> Beta is almost upon us and we need to do the
announcement. Not a really big deal, tho, not like GA
00:08:34 <Sparks> Can we just take Alpha and just change it to Beta?
00:08:43 <jjmcd> Pretty much
00:09:00 <Sparks> volunteers?
00:09:26 <jjmcd> I can do some with someone to bounce thoughts off
00:09:49 <jjmcd> preferably someone who doesn't live upside-down
00:10:09 * Sparks is living upside-down in Virginia!
00:10:33 <jjmcd> All these upside down guys sleep when I'm awake!
00:11:03 <jjmcd> I haven't seen Zach in a while, I'd twist his arm
00:11:54 <Sparks> jjmcd: Okay, maybe put something out on the list?
00:12:08 <jjmcd> Yeah, maybe poke a few folks
00:12:53 <Sparks> Okay... anything else on this topic?
00:13:28 <Sparks> #topic f-r-n.rpm
00:13:36 <Sparks> jjmcd: Okay, what's up with this?
00:13:44 <jjmcd> OK, mostly by way of a heads-up
00:13:59 <jjmcd> Our schedule had us doing the beta rpm last tuesday
00:14:17 <Sparks> and did "we"?
00:14:17 <jjmcd> With the schedule slip, I translated that to
yesterday to get the max transations
00:14:33 <jjmcd> Turns out, it needed to be done about 4 weeks ago to
make it into beta
00:14:40 <Sparks> ?!?
00:14:49 <jjmcd> Yeah, that's about what I said
00:15:02 <Sparks> How did that all work? That doesn't make sense.
00:15:08 <jjmcd> So, no f-r-n.rpm in beta
00:15:46 <jjmcd> Not sure. A lot changed between the time the
schedule came out and when we talked with john and l10n to set it up
00:16:00 <ke4qqq> have we followed up with poelcat to make sure our
schedule reflects proper date
00:16:02 <jjmcd> but also, we weren't paying close attention to the freezes
00:16:05 <ke4qqq> for next release
00:16:34 <jjmcd> Yes, that was an action item from the meeting, plus,
I've been talking with Jesse to better understand the whole process
00:16:51 <jjmcd> Which I've mostly been ignoring, sor of do whaterver
the sked says
00:17:29 <jjmcd> Bottom line, tho, I think is that we really need to
own this. Having Jesse and Paul as owners makes us too disconnected
00:18:25 <jjmcd> Thats what I have. Other questions?
00:19:10 <ke4qqq> what do you mean by "having us own this"
00:19:40 <jjmcd> Release notes are owned by paul and jesse, so we
can't, for example, submit a koji
00:19:56 <Sparks> jjmcd: I think you should be an owner
00:20:02 <Sparks> jjmcd: In addition to others as well
00:20:10 <ke4qqq> ahhh cvs perms
00:20:12 <jjmcd> But first I need to better understand the whole process
00:20:30 <jjmcd> I can make a RPM just fine, but I have little concept
of what happens after that
00:20:42 <jjmcd> In the past I've just handed it to Jesse and magic happens
00:21:10 <Sparks> jjmcd: It isn't that difficult to get it through.
Heck, I've even done it.
00:21:18 <jjmcd> I'm sure it isn't
00:21:30 <jjmcd> Just need the map
00:21:46 <Sparks> heck, if you can do git, svn, and cvn, then you are golden!
00:21:59 <Sparks> jjmcd: I think it's on the wiki... I'll see if I
can find it for you
00:22:22 <jjmcd> Seems like I found it, and I felt like it had some
holes but that was a while ago
00:22:51 <Sparks> Okay...
00:23:03 <Sparks> anything else on this topic?
00:24:07 <Sparks> #topic Status on CMS (Zikula)
00:24:23 <Sparks> #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Zikula#Module_status
00:24:41 <Sparks> Any update on this?
00:25:52 <Sparks> Anyone?
00:26:50 <Sparks> Okay then...
00:26:55 <Sparks> #topic Status on CC license rollout.
00:27:04 <Sparks> #link
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/License_changeover_schedule
00:27:17 <Sparks> I can't remember if I sent out the message to the
list or not, now...
00:27:52 <rudi> Will start rebuilding F11 and F12 guides RSN
00:27:53 <Sparks> But for those that are onboard, can you modify your
license pages using the new publican-fedora brand and redo your
uploads to docs.fp.o?
00:28:10 <Sparks> I'd like to have everything changed over by next Wednesday.
00:29:35 <jjmcd> hehe - I didn't notice, but the RN's for L10N all say CC-BY-SA
00:29:43 <Sparks> Cool!
00:29:43 <Sparks> :)
00:29:54 <jjmcd> Except for Chinese which hasn't run in a while
00:30:15 <rudi> Sparks -- will do :)
00:30:49 <Sparks> Ya
00:30:51 <Sparks> rudi: Cool
00:30:56 <Sparks> Okay, anything else on this?
00:31:18 <jjmcd> Is the Pravne odrdbe supposed to be always english?
00:31:37 <Sparks> is the who?
00:31:56 <jjmcd> Legal Notice
00:32:10 <jjmcd> It is in English for all langs, although it's title isn't
00:32:29 <Sparks> Yes
00:32:51 <Sparks> We aren't supposed to translate the legal notice as
it might loose something in translation
00:33:10 <jjmcd> Makes sense
00:33:30 <rudi> jjmcd -- the title should be localised, the text should not
00:33:40 <jjmcd> ANd that is the case
00:34:02 <rudi> If you see a language where the title isn't localised,
it's because the string "legal notice" is missing from the
docbooks-locale file currently in Fedora
00:34:31 <jjmcd> I see assamese isn't
00:34:52 <rudi> There is currently no stylesheet for Assamese at all,
even upstream
00:35:00 <rudi> I'm working on that with the DocBook community
00:36:13 <Sparks> Okay, anything else on this topic?
00:36:46 <Sparks> #topic Shared open-source style guide
00:36:55 <Sparks> #link
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2009-June/msg00163.html
00:37:01 <Sparks> Does anyone have any updates on this?
00:38:42 * Sparks hears crickets chirping
00:38:53 <Sparks> Okay, moving on.
00:39:00 <Sparks> #topic Guide needs?
00:39:06 <Sparks> Any guides have any needs?
00:40:02 <Sparks> #topic New Guides
00:40:08 <Sparks> Any new guides on the horizon?
00:41:34 <Sparks> #topic Other business
00:41:38 <Sparks> Anyone have anything else?
00:42:32 <Sparks> Anything at all?
00:42:43 <rudi> me
00:43:08 <rudi> Just an update that Publican 1.0 is very near now --
should be finished within days
00:43:19 <rudi> But it won't be in Fedora any time soon
00:43:25 <jjmcd> whew
00:43:32 <Sparks> rudi: No?
00:43:48 <rudi> Because we've been waiting weeks for dependencies get approved
00:44:14 <rudi> At this rate, it actually looks like Publican 1.0 will
be in *Debian* before it gets into Fedora...
00:44:20 <Sparks> Ugh
00:44:21 <rudi> (I'm not exaggerating...)
00:46:51 <Sparks> Okay... Well, I don't know.
00:47:49 <Sparks> Anyone have anything else?
00:49:00 <Sparks> 5
00:49:02 <Sparks> 4
00:49:05 <Sparks> 3
00:49:07 <Sparks> 2
00:49:10 <Sparks> 1
00:49:15 <Sparks> Thanks everyone for coming!
00:49:19 <Sparks> #endmeeting
14 years, 6 months
fedora-release-notes RPM maintainers
by Paul W. Frields
I saw this snippet in yesterday's meeting log:
<jjmcd> [20:19] Release notes are owned by paul and jesse, so we
can't, for example, submit a koji
<Sparks> [20:19] jjmcd: I think you should be an owner
[20:20] jjmcd: In addition to others as well
<ke4qqq> [20:20] ahhh cvs perms
<jjmcd> [20:20] But first I need to better understand the whole
process
[20:20] I can make a RPM just fine, but I have little concept
of what happens after that
[20:20] In the past I've just handed it to Jesse and magic
happens
<Sparks> [20:21] jjmcd: It isn't that difficult to get it
through. Heck, I've even done it.
<jjmcd> [20:21] I'm sure it isn't
[20:21] Just need the map
I would be absolutely thrilled to add some people to co-maintain this
package. All you need to do is go here:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/fedora-release-notes
Then login (at the upper right), and add yourself to the package for
the various branches you need. I'd recommend F-12 and devel to start
with, unless someone plans on doing F-10 or F-11 updates for the
release notes RPM.
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Intro
by vishesh kumar
My name is vishesh kumar, working as a Linux system admin for a giant media
house in india. My am working on Fedora and Redhat Enterprise Linux from
around 5 years.
I want to join FDP for following reasons
Have closer contact with your favorite developers and projects. and
writing as a career builder.
What i can assure that i am sound in software hardware installation and
configuration part.
I can contribute to Fedora Documentaion in following area
Installation or configuration of any software or hardware under Fedora
General or security best practices
What i need is oppurtunity to start.
Thanks
14 years, 6 months
