Xfce documentation and Wiki Ideas

[Brock Hudson]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:05:18 -0700
Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:

> 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

Sounds good. I will start splitting wiki into stable and rawhide. If
anyone else wants to help feel free to email me and we can figure out
where each other left off. I will start write ups on rawhide and a
user-guide asap as well.