Recurring post idea: Ask a Fedora Dev

[Pete Travis]

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I've been mulling over a theme for a series of articles.  The
inspiration came easily; I was thinking I'd *like* to write something
for Fedora Magazine, but wasn't coming up with great ideas for it.  I
mused ironically that it would be a lot easier to come up with topics if
people would just feed me project-related questions I could answer or
find answers to. Then hey, why not?

When users have "how" or "what" questions, Ask Fedora is a good place to
get answers.  Sometimes they have "why" or "who" questions, and they
don't fit well into a support-style conversation.  At least, those are
the kind of questions I envision people would ask, given the opportunity
- but who knows what interesting things they'd come up with!

So the idea is to set up a bucket for of questions that people want to
ask Fedora developers, we pick questions out of the bucket, build posts
in draft, and publish them on a schedule.  A couple things would have to
be in place first:
   
    - The bucket. Another feedback form, maybe?  Where does that stuff go?
    - Question guidelines.  Some questions don't lend themselves to this
format.
    - Writers.  It would be nice to have some help :)  Ideally, I think
it would be best to get the answers from subject matter experts,
maintainers of the relevant package, etc.  Folks that know who to ask
reach out to the devs, and draft the article copy.
    - Questions.  We could seed this fairly easily, but I would wager
that if we put the form on the site with a "coming soon" intro the
bucket won't stay empty long.

Your thoughts?

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- -- Pete Travis
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