Question about RPM packaging.
by Tommy Reynolds
Fellow Doc'ers,
As I continue to think about RPM packaging for the FDP world, another
question arose. I noticed in several other *.desktop files that the
package name is specified like this:
Name[en] = Example Tutorial
Name[de] = Beispiel Tutorial*
and so on. My idea here is to use another "Makefile" macro for this,
so that individual translators can add the title when they add the
translated files. Something like:
DOCNAME-en=Example Tutorial
DOCNAME-de=Beispiel Tutorial*
and on and on. Can someone who is more fluent in a non-Romance
language do a quick test to see if make(1) can handle the unicode
characters properly? A two-line "Makefile" would be sufficient:
all:
echo '________________________'
where all the underbars should be replaced by some unicode
characters. Then, a quick:
$ make
should show the original characters.
Please let me know your results.
Thanks!
* N.B.:
I got this translation from bablefish. Apologies if it is something
tacky.
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Self-Introduction: David-Paul Niner
by David-Paul Niner
Greetings! My name is David-Paul Niner.
I am a 35 year-old "just returning to college" male presently residing
in Orange Park, Florida (that's a suburb of Jacksonville in the very
northeast corner of the state), in the United States.
Although I am only presently attending part-time classes (I recently
resigned from the local government arena, but enjoyed dragging them into
the world of open source nonetheless), I will begin full-time studies in
the Computer Science program at the University of North Florida in the
Spring of 2006.
I enjoy writing immensely. The idea of becoming part of something as
important as the Fedora Project excites me; I feel I have much to
contribute.
My several years experience as a network/systems administrator and my
independent studies of CS have allowed me to develop a certain level of
comfort when communicating with others on a technical level. However, I
also enjoy acting as a translator for those less inclined to learn the
more arcane aspects of computer operations and the language itself.
Have you ever met someone who was absolutely obsessive about writing
and/or grammar perfection? If so, it was probably me. I'm the sort of
person who reads everything over two, three, and occasionally four times
before committing to it. It's both a blessing and a curse, but it's
something I enjoy. I take great pride in attending to detail.
I have no formal technical writing training (save for the usual grammar
and literature classes taught in college), although I feel confident
that I can "hit the ground running" in that area.
The simplistic genius of the Gnome environment impresses me; It is that
style of interface design--the enormous amount of function balanced
against a nearly clutter-free layout--that I find attractive. Having
the ability to fine-tune one's desktop environment is, in my opinion,
not nearly as important to the average user as some believe; I believe
that ease-of-use and intuitiveness will always be more appreciated.
If this is a vision shared by you then perhaps I could benefit your team
by doing some interface design work.
As an aside, I enjoy creative writing as a form of stress relief, and
have given serious thought to attempting to publish a work of fiction in
the near-to-mid future.
I have great respect for both the Fedora Project and for the individual
members who compose the whole. Redhat/Fedora is the only flavor of
Linux I've seriously come to study, and I've been using one form or
another now for nearly eight years (and have used Fedora on the desktop
since its conception). I'm now ready to give back in some way if
anyone is interested!
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figure title centering
by Yoshinari Takaoka
hi, all.
i found that a figure title of the installation guide is not centering, this
is the same as original one. for example,
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/ch-other-instal...
IMHO, its title should be also centering because figure is centering.
this is because text alignment of a figure title is undefined in fedora.css.
but its a docs-common file and its change affects to all document.
can i modify fedora.css as follows, or is there an another solution?
RCS file: /cvs/docs/docs-common/css/fedora.css,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -r1.7 fedora.css
16a17,20
> p.title {
> text-align: center;
> }
>
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Offer to assist with editing RPM Guide
by David-Paul Niner
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I've only glossed over the topic areas, but what I see looks
awesome! It's nice to have a current rpm reference available.
If I can be of any assistance, I would be more than willing to help edit.
Thank you,
David-Paul Niner, RHCE
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Self-Introduction: Andrew Martynov
by Andrew Martynov
Full Name: Andrew Martynov
City & Country: Moscow, Russian Federation (GMT+0300)
Profession: Trainer, Support Engineer
Company: Inventa
Your goals in the Fedora Project: Translation of Docs of Fedora Project into Russian language
Historical qualifications:
- maintainer of FC translation project into Russian
- paticipant of translation RHEL manuals at www.rhd.ru/docs/
Computer skills:
- linux user since 1999
- RHCE/RHCX certifications
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Draft RPM Guide available online
by Paul Nasrat
I'm very pleased to announce that the Red Hat RPM Guide has been made
available under the Open Publication Licence, Version 1.0.
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/
This is much more recent than Maximum RPM and gives a good starting
point to work towards living documentation for RPM. Although some
sections - notably Chapter 7 requires a complete rewrite. However I
wanted to get it out in it's current form (basically as published plus
errata).
I'd like to thank Eric Foster-Johnson, all those involved in the
original formation of the Guide (particularly Jeff Johnson) and Tammy
Fox and those at the publishers for helping to make this happen. Also
thanks to the Fedora Docs team in particular Stuart Ellis and Karsten
Wade for their conversion and push efforts
Participation through normal Fedora Documentation process:
http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
I'll be attempting to form a team to help edit/update content. If you
want to help please follow up to fedora-docs-list.
Paul
18 years, 5 months
Re: Self-introduction: Luya Tshimbalanga
by Luya Tshimbalanga
Ah that picture, I will add on my profile. Priceless =)
>Are you interested in also writing in French and having it translated
>into other languages?
>I've been very, very curious about this idea for a while. I wonder how
>it would work out? I think it would be educational for all of us.
Sure. That will further show Fedora Core is an international community
project.
Luya
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Self-introduction: Luya Tshimbalanga
by Luya Tshimbalanga
Luya Tshimbalanga
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Freelance writer and web designer
Goal in Fedora Project
* I currently write information about the installer (Anaconda) and
add features that are included.
* Due to my french background, I sometime made a grammatical mistake so
I hope writing a styling english text will improve my skil
Historical qualification
* Fedora News contributor, http://www.fedoranews.org
* Author of Fedora Test Guide, a tutorial about installing Fedora
Rawhide, in Fedora Project
* Author of The VOC Soul Gospel Choir article published on
http://workinfonet.bc.ca/youth/mindgallery/earcandy/default.cfm?mode=2&ID...
* Skilled on XHTML,CSS
* W3school certified web developer
* Designed draft logo concept for Fedora Project
* Fluent in French
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minutes 1 Nov 2005 FDSCo meeting
by Karsten Wade
Attending:
----------
Mark Johnson (mrj)
Paul Frields (stickster)
Stuart Elliss (elliss)
Gavin Henry (G2)
Tommy Reyonlds (MegaCoder)
Karsten Wade (quaid)
Regrets:
--------
Tammy Fox (temporary leave-of-absence)
Schedule of Tasks:
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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/FedoraDocsSchedule
Highlights:
-----------
* Reaffirmation of FDSCo membership requirements/details. Members are
active when they can be involved in Fedora enough to make intelligent
decisions as a committee member. When they cannot perform that duty,
they are obligated to move themselves to inactive status. The committee
should never have to tell someone to leave, except in extreme
situations.
* The formation of the Fedora Foundation is going to be a good
opportunity for FDSCo to review it's organization. This is a good time
to morph the shape, form more sub-committees, etc.
* Reorganizing the beats in this way:
FileSystems -> Kernel/FileSystems
DatabaseServers -> NetworkServers/DatabaseServers
Networking -> Kernel/Networking
ServerTools -> SystemConfigTools
EmergingTechnologies (new)
NetworkServers (new) -- covers mail, ftp, etc.
* Bob Jensen is now the Xorg beat writer. Sweet!
* Slip of Fedora schedule does not affect writing, editing, or
translating. We are getting a few weeks ahead of our work and have
tested our tools and processes. No work is lost. However, some of us
may have been under pressure to produce within the deadline. Sorry if
you lost any sleep, like I did!
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18 years, 5 months
Proposal: Makefile improvement for the release notes
by SEKINE Tatsuo
Hi, all
Now the Makefile has the following entry for the list of XML files:
XMLEXTRAFILES-en=daemons-en.xml database-servers-en.xml desktop-en.xml development-tools-en.xml feedback-en.xml file-servers-en.xml file-systems-en.xml hardware-reqs-en.xml install-notes-en.xml intro-en.xml java-package-en.xml kernel-en.xml misc-server-en.xml multimedia-en.xml networking-en.xml overview-en.xml package-movement-en.xml package-notes-en.xml printing-en.xml project-overview-en.xml samba-en.xml security-en.xml server-tools-en.xml splash-en.xml web-servers-en.xml xorg-en.xml
IMHO, it could be generalized for the languages like below:
---- 8X ---- 8X ---- 8X ---- 8X ---- 8X ---- 8X ---- 8X ----
define XMLEXTRAFILES_template
XMLEXTRAFILES-$(1)=daemons-$(1).xml desktop-$(1).xml development-tools-$(1).xml feedback-$(1).xml file-servers-$(1).xml hardware-reqs-$(1).xml install-notes-$(1).xml intro-$(1).xml java-package-$(1).xml kernel-$(1).xml misc-server-$(1).xml multimedia-$(1).xml networking-$(1).xml overview-$(1).xml package-movement-$(1).xml package-notes-$(1).xml printing-$(1).xml project-overview-$(1).xml samba-$(1).xml security-$(1).xml server-tools-$(1).xml splash-$(1).xml web-servers-$(1).xml xorg-$(1).xml
$(foreach LANG,${LANGUAGES},$(eval $(call XMLEXTRAFILES_template,${LANG})))
---- X8 ---- X8 ---- X8 ---- X8 ---- X8 ---- X8 ---- X8 ----
# I removed unused files(i.e. database-servers-*.xml,
# file-systems-*.xml) from it.
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