Contribution opportunity - Fedora Working Group Writers
by Ankur Sinha
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From: Pete Travis
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To: For participants of the Documentation Project
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Subject: Fedora Working Group Writers
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:01:06 -0700
Hi all,
The Fedora 21 release is a huge accomplishment for us and the Fedora
Project as a whole. We have a new lineup of deliverables[0], a new
organizational structure[1], and a new leadership body[2]. Some of the
changes have been hard to miss, and some have had subtle impacts; all of
them promise continuing change for Fedora's users and contributors.
To keep up, we should rethink the work that we do, and the service we
provide to the user and developer community. Okay, I'll address the
obvious caveat before getting into it: We're all volunteers, probably
already putting in the time we have available, working on things of
unquestionable value. We've done a fair job of improving our welcome
for newcomers. That said, a lot of our work is structured for
yesterday's grab-bag Fedora, not today's product-ized (flavorized?
editioned?) Fedora. We should be looking at what we can do to better
represent the Workstation, Server, or Cloud images being offered to the
users, and better support the majority of developers whose work isn't in
those default package sets.
I would like to hear everyone's thoughts on where the fedora.next path
should lead the Docs Project - especially those of you that are
subscribed but haven't been active lately. Your perspective might
provide some valuable contrast.
My idea so far is a simple one. We have three deliverable-oriented
working groups, and there should be a bridge between these groups and
Docs. We should provide that bridge by volunteering to actively
communicate with and monitor the working groups. They might be fine
with just a simple list in the Release Notes, or they might enjoy having
a fully developed guide to their work, or want more than we can actually
fulfill, or they don't know what they want yet. We can't know without a
solid channel for ideas to flow though.
These are dynamic and active groups, and keeping up with them will be a
considerable time investment. For some perspective, here's where you
should watch for, and participate in, the action:
- #fedora-devel, #fedora-cloud, #fedora-server, #fedora-workstation,
others on freenode[3]
- related channels, like #cockpit or #fedora-desktop on irc.gnome.org[4]
- Lots of Fedora mailing lists. devel@, desktop@, infra@, releng@,
server@[5]
- Trac instances for each working group, infra, releng, and FESco[6]
- "watching" wiki pages maintained by each group.
- "watchcommits" and "watchbugzilla" on pivotal packages in pkgdb[7]
- upstream mailing lists and commit flows
- ... then write it down somewhere :)
It's really a lot to go through. Hopefully, there are some folks
already in tune, or people looking for a good way to contribute, that
can jump in, at least one per working group. If not, let's talk about
dividing some of this up to make it work. Docs will produce much better
results if we're organized about how we discover the material.
[0] https://getfedora.org
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora.next
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicating_and_getting_help
[4] https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/IRC
[5] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo
[6] https://fedorahosted.org/web/
[7] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb
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Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
8 years, 8 months
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by Nuwan Indika
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8 years, 8 months
[January] Any newcomers here?
by Ankur Sinha
Hello!
I hope everyone had a refreshing holiday.
It's a new year and a new Fedora release is in the works. It's an
excellent time to get started, since the release is still quite a few
months away and the various teams are just getting started.
Please take this opportunity to come forward and tell us a
little about yourself, how you'd like to contribute to Fedora and how we
can help you quickly get started! We'll be more than happy to help you
become a part of the Fedora community!
Freedom, Friends, Features, First!
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations
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Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
8 years, 8 months
[December] Any newcomers here?
by Ankur Sinha
Hello!
Are any newcomers here on the list still waiting to introduce
themselves? Please take this opportunity to come forward and tell us a
little about yourself, how you'd like to contribute to Fedora and how we
can help you quickly get started!
Please take this opportunity to introduce yourself and ask *any*
questions you have. We'll be more than happy to help you become a part
of the Fedora community!
There's a lot of work going on in Fedora with Fedora 21 coming up really
soon. We have a lot of testing, a lot of marketing, a lot of designing,
a lot of events, and of course, a lot of development. It's a great time
to join in and get started!
PS: Fedora 21 is at RC5 (release candidate 5)! If you haven't begun testing it yet,
now is a great time to begin!
Freedom, Friends, Features, First!
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations
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Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
8 years, 8 months
