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DuG shifting to XML
by Marc Wiriadisastra 11 Mar '08

11 Mar '08

We are starting to get ready for shifting the pages to XML. How do I do that because I would like to learn how to do it. Setting up the build files etc. Make blah blah. Cheers, Marc

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Wiki changes
by Mike McGrath 11 Mar '08

11 Mar '08

I'm making some more wiki tweaks today, if you're a regular wiki user please stop by #fedora-admin and let me know how its going. Basically I'm allowing more processes to run but for a shorter amount of time. This will cause the longer running threads to be killed much sooner and should free up resources for the normal day-to-day stuff that has been suffering over the last couple of weeks. I'm looking into why we've had more timeouts recently though I suspect its because the release is close, more people are editing and using the wiki. Please let me know what your experiences are with the wiki over the next couple of days. -Mike

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Release note beats for F9?
by Kevin Kofler 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

When will http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats start targeting F9? According to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule the beats for the preview/RC release are supposed to be complete March 16, but currently they're still targeting F8. I also don't see any schedule entry at the aforementioned URL about when the beats will start targeting F9. Kevin Kofler

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Announcing FAS2 Tests!
by Mike McGrath 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

Well, we've been working on it for a long time and even with a last minute core technology change FAS2 is ready for testing and almost ready for deployment. What is FAS2 you ask? Its the second iteration of the Fedora Accounts System. It's based off of TurboGears and has so many standards and future expandability I won't even go into that here. What I will say is that we'd like everyone to come test it before we deploy it in the next week or two. The test site is at: https://publictest10.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ This system is completely separate from the current running system so feel free to come in, setup a test account, or 2 or 10, and groups. If you'd like admin or sponsor access to a group just stop by #fedora-admin and ask for it and someone will set you up. What are features to look forward to in FAS2? * Online help system * Translations (the systems there but without translations currently) * JSON Interface * More comprehensive client for shell access * Easier to sign the CLA * OpenID interface (work in progress) * Much less developer-centeric interface To get your own local install going just run: yum install git-core git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fedora-infrastructure.git/ cd fedora-infrastructure.git/fas vi README If you have any bugs to report please send them to: https://fedorahosted.org/fas2/ We're also taking feature requests though they will likely not make it into the initial deployment. Happy hacking!

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Re: Beta Release Notes - FINAL EDIT NEEDED
by Jonathan Roberts 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

Hi all, Does anybody have a spare half an hour to go through the Beta release notes and tidy it up? I think most of the content we need is there (even if it's not all there, we've got pretty good coverage) but there's just one or two sections that need changing from long bulleted lists with esoteric iamext4developer bits and bobs that need tidying before release. I'm feeling pretty swamped myself just now as it's the last week of term and there seems to be a million things to do before going home on Thursday! If it can wait until the weekend then I should be able to do it then, but if somebody else has the time to tidy things you'd be a hero :) Many thanks, Jon

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automatically generate includes for publican
by Murray McAllister 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

Hi, Chris Curran kindly gave me a script today that will automatically generate xi include directives, as used by publican in the [book_name].xml file. I found this was good for getting existing docs ready for publican. The script can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MurrayMcAllister If you can't wait, it is also here: #!/bin/sh for i in $( ls ); do if [[ "$i" == *.xml ]]; then echo -en "\074xi\072include href=\042" echo -n $i echo -e "\042 xmlns\072xi\075\042http\072\057\057www\056w3\056org\00572001\057XInclude\042 \057\076" fi done Thanks Chris! Kind Regards, Murray. --------------------------------------------------------------------- pub 1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18] Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46 20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious) <murray.mcallister(a)gmail.com> sub 2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]

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Fedora 9 preview release notes clean-up
by Murray McAllister 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

Hi, I (perhaps crazily) put my hand up to help with converting the release notes from wiki to CVS/DocBook. According to the schedule, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule, the wiki freeze for the release notes is the 16th of March. Before the content is moved into CVS, the wiki content needs to be edited for clarity, grammar, and to make sure the correct tags (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/WritingUsingTheWiki) are being used. I can start going over these (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/ReleaseNotes/Beats) Maybe if others are helping, they could post to the list and let everyone else know which sections they were looking at. Thanks a lot for your help! Kind Regards, Murray. --------------------------------------------------------------------- pub 1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18] Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46 20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious) <murray.mcallister(a)gmail.com> sub 2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]

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Time change and meeting
by Paul W. Frields 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

I propose that our meeting shift by one hour for the duration of Daylight Savings Time, to 1800 UTC, so most local time will remain the same and we don't have to go through nailing down availability yet again. So that would be Wednesdays, 1800 UTC/2:00pm EDT/11:00am PDT. For people around the world not yet on Daylight Savings Time, this will make the meeting one hour earlier. If and when your time changes, the time would revert to the previous time; so our UK contingent, for example, will shift to BST on 30 March, and be back at 7:00pm instead of 6:00pm. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Wiki problems
by Marc Wiriadisastra 08 Mar '08

08 Mar '08

I'm going to blame the wiki for this......... http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/DesktopUserGuide/Communications That page has the following section in it. The wiki text is as follows: == Kopete == ''' Kopete '''is the Internet Messenger that is installed in KDE by default. attachment:kopete.png In KDE ''' Kopete ''' can be found in ''Kmenu > Applications > Internet > Instant Messenger'' In GNOME '''Kopete''' can be found in ''Applications > Internet > Kopete'' The output however is different. How do I fix this? Cheers, Marc

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Meeting with RH Docs
by Paul W. Frields 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

I talked with a couple of folks from the Red Hat Engineering Content Services (documentation & translation) groups tonight -- part of a weekly series of meetings, actually. Thanks to the kind participation of Murray McAllister, we have a splendid opportunity to see how our toolchain can fit together with Publican, the RH Docs tool for building documentation. There are probably a few capabilities we have of which the RH Docs team isn't aware, and some pain points that may require fixing as well. I am hopeful that the developer of Publican, Jeff Fearn, will be able to help out with looking at the FDP toolchain to explore all these issues, since there aren't many of us here with the combination of the requisite skills and the time to work on any remaining problems. Doing this work in the open community is a big win for everyone, especially since it will help seed a whole new group of documentation writers and editors in the FDP. As I told the RH folks, I suspect this is not nearly as long or arduous a process as it sounds. I also think we'll find not only a lot of common problems already solved, but ways to improve both our toolchain and Publican as we go. Thanks to everyone for your assistance as we explore this opportunity together. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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