Based on conversations on fedora-advisory-board and the state of the future, I propose we start using the word "Fedora" in all our documentation to refer to:
* The distribution itself * The set of packages * The project
For the project case, I think a good style is this:
"For the first instance of referring to the formal project, use 'Fedora Project' to set the context, then use 'Fedora' afterward to refer back to the project. If writing about both the project and the distribution, use 'Fedora Project' in all cases, referring to the distribution as 'Fedora'."
We definitely want to stop using 'Fedora Core' for documentation in the future. Although we still need to identify the difference between 'Core' and 'Extras' in FC6 documentation, we can start to use 'Fedora' in place of 'Fedora Core' now to save us the work of changing it later.
When things are settled around "The server version of Fedora is called Fedora Foo, and the desktop live-CD is called Fedora Bar," then we'll use those terms. However, since the different flavors do not exist yet, we don't need to start worrying about them. :)
- Karsten, who hates search and replace in the Wiki
Karsten Wade wrote:
Based on conversations on fedora-advisory-board and the state of the future, I propose we start using the word "Fedora" in all our documentation to refer to:
- The distribution itself
- The set of packages
- The project
For the project case, I think a good style is this:
"For the first instance of referring to the formal project, use 'Fedora Project' to set the context, then use 'Fedora' afterward to refer back to the project. If writing about both the project and the distribution, use 'Fedora Project' in all cases, referring to the distribution as 'Fedora'."
We definitely want to stop using 'Fedora Core' for documentation in the future. Although we still need to identify the difference between 'Core' and 'Extras' in FC6 documentation, we can start to use 'Fedora' in place of 'Fedora Core' now to save us the work of changing it later.
When things are settled around "The server version of Fedora is called Fedora Foo, and the desktop live-CD is called Fedora Bar," then we'll use those terms. However, since the different flavors do not exist yet, we don't need to start worrying about them. :)
- Karsten, who hates search and replace in the Wiki
I already started doing this in the documentation that I am working with. I think it makes better sense to not marginalize Fedora Extras unncessarily even in the current release process
Rahul
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 02:44 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
I already started doing this in the documentation that I am working with. I think it makes better sense to not marginalize Fedora Extras unncessarily even in the current release process
Good point. We can supplement instructions for FC6-related documentation to say,
"Use 'Fedora Extras' only when referring to:
* Processes about getting involved in packaging; * When discussing enabling a separate FE repo
Otherwise, we can effectively consider FE and FC to all be just F(edora) now."
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Rahul Sundaram