SOP creation made easier
Since we were directly inspired to create the Marketing SOPs by seeing
how much good it's done Infrastructure to have them, I thought I'd share
some back - we made a template and a SOP for making SOPs to make the
SOP-generation process itself easier on folks who might not want to
spend a lot of time on wiki editing.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Creating_a_Marketing_SOP
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Template:Marketing_SOP
They're both marketing-specific at the moment, but could be cloned for
Infrastructure in a few minutes.
Another way to make it even easier to make SOPs would be to use
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox, which would give you a
text field with a button next to it; if you type a title into the text
field and hit the button, it throws you straight into the Edit page for
a new page with that title, with a template you prespecify already in
there. If someone wants to implement that extension, I'd be happy to do
the wiki work needed to document/use it for various types of
pages-that-should-be-easy-to-create once the extension is installed.
--Mel
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Marketing SOPs
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:24:30 -0500
From: Mel Chua <mel(a)redhat.com>
Reply-To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora
user base <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
<fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
One of the projects we have between now and Alpha is to document how to
create each of our primary release deliverables in the form of a SOP[0].
You can see our current SOPs here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Marketing_SOPs#How_to_contribute. Some
are more polished than others.
Of course, I had to start by making a SOP on how to make SOPs. :)
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Creating_a_Marketing_SOP
It makes use of the (also new) Marketing SOP template,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Template:Marketing_SOP. That template is
meant to be a suggestion/aide to make life easier, so don't feel
compelled to stick to it if you think a different format will work
better for you.
--Mel
[0] Standard Operating Procedure - we used to call them "HOWTOs," but I
switched the term to be more consistent with the terminology other teams
use (specifically,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Infrastructure_SOPs). The HOWTO
pages have been redirected/recategorized to reflect this.
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