Xfce documentation and Wiki Ideas

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:54:50 -0500
Brock Hudson <escapingsummer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like to first respond to Nathan's email, 
> 
> "Not everyone who uses Fedora has easy, unlimited to access to the 
> internet, so at some point we need to get the new Xfce guide
> available in some downloadable form. But the wiki is definitely a
> good place to develop the guide."
> 
> Great point, never thought about that, we should absolutely cater to
> those individuals. As far as the format, I'm not really a fan of PDF
> but I am sure individuals in the mailing lists have some ideas on how
> to make this portable for users. 
> 
> Upon brainstorming, I thought that perhaps we use wiki as our testing
> grounds for what goes into the Official Documentation. We can all
> decide what makes it in, and while transferring it to Official
> Documentation we can also create portable formats for users. I think
> we should branch Wiki documentation into two areas, Stable and
> Rawhide, because I know some users already compile and use the newest
> releases and updates for Fedora and we can get a jump start on Rawhide
> Documentation by allowing those individuals to contribute in that
> wiki. Rawhide documentation could then transfer into stable after
> review and finally transfer to official docs prior to Rawhide's
> release.

That sounds good to me. 

Currently, f13/f14 have 4.6 and rawhide has 4.8, so there will be
differences. It would be good to keep them seperate and work on them
each. 

I like the idea of writing up drafts and getting it put together before
we import it into publican to allow widespead docs. :) 

kevin
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