Re: corrections on release-notes-f11
by Paul W. Frields
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 03:16:31PM -0300, Domingo Becker wrote:
> Three sections are not in the pot file:
> '5.10. File Systems',
> '6.9. Linux Kernel' and
> '7.2. Electronic Design Automation'
>
> They are not localisable.
>
> The rest looks fine.
Yikes, that's the first I heard of that -- can someone in Docs team
take a look and verify what's going on there?
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14 years, 12 months
Outside Linux magazine help
by Paul W. Frields
I was contacted by our Red Hat PR folks, who received a request from a
Linux magazine for help preparing content for a special issue on
Fedora 11. This magazine appears on newsstands around North America
and some ESL regions as well.
This job is actually does offer some pay for the work involved. Are
there a couple volunteers who are interested in providing this content
on a fairly short deadline of a few weeks? It would probably be
worthwhile to have a small team, and I would recommend that team not
be comprised -- at least not solely -- of people who are already
committing their efforts to those things we really need for release.
(However, you guys are the best judges of the time you have, so if
there's someone superhuman out there, I won't stop you!)
Please get in touch with me **OFF THE LIST**, in private, and I will
hook you up directly with the editor of the publication in question.
(By the way, they did very nice Fedora 9 and Fedora 10 issues, which I
saw on newsstands around town, so these guys are legit!)
Thanks for your help; you can contact me at pfrields(a)fedoraproject.org
or the email above.
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14 years, 12 months
Open source and diagramming survey
by chung＠engr.orst.edu
Dear open source contributors,
I am Eunyoung Chung, a Masters student working with Dr. Jensen at
Oregon State University.
We are currently doing a research project in collaboration with Dr.
Truong and Ph.D student Koji Yatani at University of Toronto. Our goal
is to understand how contributors communicate and collaborate in Open
Source Software (OSS) projects, including diagramming practices.
We are seeking volunteers for a quick survey on this topic. Any person
who is actively working on a OSS project is eligible. The survey takes
approximately 10-15 minutes, and the 5 volunteers will be picked to
receive a $30 Amazon gift certificate. Your participation is anonymous
(unless you consent to have us contact you)
Here is the survey address.
https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/limesurvey/58564/lang-en
We really appreciate your help!
14 years, 12 months
Release Notes in F12 and beyond?
by Paul W. Frields
Several translation teams are doing a fantastic job getting
translations of the Release Notes done for Fedora 11. However, it's a
marked decrease in effort from the Fedora 10 release. From the few
teams that talked about why they were not engaging in this effort, it
looks like the large amount of material and churn in the Release Notes
is a big demotivator for them, even though the churn from F10->F11 is
significantly less than from F9->F10.
It might be good to start thinking now about, and then clearly
documenting for posterity (in a few months when we've all forgotten!),
whether any change in the Release Notes strategy is desired. Perhaps
the Docs team doesn't want to change that, in which case thought
should be given to the translation needs for that document and how to
address them. Several people have brought up the idea of making our
official Release Notes document short and less technical, like those
used in GNOME, and backing them up with more detailed pages on the
wiki as needed. That's certainly one way to go.
Just encouraging people to think about this problem and whether any
change is warranted for F12 and beyond, and if so, what to change.
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14 years, 12 months
Fedora 11 User Guide
by Ruediger Landmann
Just a heads-up to everyone that conversion of the Fedora 11 User Guide
to Docbook XML is now complete and checked into the git repo here:
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=docs/user-guide.git;a=summary
The wiki version of the document includes the desktop icons for most of
the applications mentioned in the guide. I haven't included these in the
XML version due to time constraints. I'm also not sure how much value
they really add to the guide, and whether other screen shots might be
more useful instead of (or in addition to) the desktop icons.
You can see a test build of the document here:
http://rlandmann.fedorapeople.org/User%20Guide/
I've also created a branch in the repo named "f11-tx" that contains a
folder named "po" to hold translations coming in through Transifex. This
folder currently holds the user-guide.pot file, created with msgcat from
the individual Publican .pot files. It also has an empty LINGUAS file.
So, as soon as Matthew gives the say-so, this is ready for translation.
Cheers
Rudi
15 years
Tonight's Meeting
by Eric Christensen
Today has been crazy and tonight isn't looking much better. I may not
be able to make tonight's meeting. Can someone please run the meeting
for me if I'm not there?
Thanks,
Eric
15 years
