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Re: Your Fedora 'docs' membership has been downgraded
by Robert 'Bob' Jensen 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Forgive my top post but this client is problematic. Gave up on working with upstream to fix it. In the past when changes like this happened they were discussed and an attempt to contact the people effected was made. This is the problem and the most annoying point of this whole action item. I don't care about the change in status, in fact I agree with it I have not been able to be active in quite some time. I have been trying to read the meeting minutes or summaries so that I can speak up if needed or chip in for a very small task. Hopefully in this calendar year things can get back to having more time to contribute. You know where to find me. Best Regards, Robert 'Bob' Jensen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul W. Frields" <stickster(a)gmail.com> To: fedora-docs-list(a)redhat.com Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 10:25:42 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: Fwd: Your Fedora 'docs' membership has been downgraded In general, I think any team ought to reach out to people if access levels need to change for some reason. An example might be packager group changes, which are typically relayed to fedora-devel-announce. I think that Eric was discussing the need to put active people in sponsorship roles on IRC earlier. I talked to him briefly and we agreed that these sorts of things should go to the list first, to give plenty of notice. Let's also try and cut Eric a bit of slack while he's getting the hang of holding the reins of the team -- there's a lot going on, and I'm sure no slight was intended. -- 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 -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list

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Fwd: Your Fedora 'docs' membership has been downgraded
by Robert 'Bob' Jensen 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: accounts(a)fedoraproject.org To: bob(a)fedoraunity.org Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 9:06:08 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Your Fedora 'docs' membership has been downgraded sparks <eric(a)christensenplace.us> has downgraded you to user status in the 'docs' group of the Fedora Accounts System This change is effective immediately for new operations, and should propagate into the e-mail aliases within an hour. Firing people via email... bad form. Might as well go all the way and remove my docs membership while you are at it. Former Fedora Docs Contributor, Robert 'Bob' Jensen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robert 'Bob' Jensen || Fedora Unity Founder | | bob(a)fedoraunity.org || http://fedoraunity.org/ | | http://bjensen.fedorapeople.org/ | | http://blogs.fedoraunity.org/bobjensen | | http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Bob-Jensen/1332998420 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Publican Documentation Naming
by Eric Christensen 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Earlier today the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC) looked at two "obstacles" to Publican-generated documentation. The first was the naming convention[1] and the second was how Publican handles the .desktop in the SPEC file[2]. Both passed the FPC. The FPC did say that we (the Docs Project) need to create a review process to ask "is this documentation really version specific? is there value in having multiple releases in the same dist at once?". This is an important test that we need to develop and handle in-house. This is NOT a solution to allow all Publican documents but it is a solution for allowing release-specific documents in Fedora. Also discussed was the multiple SRPMs that are generated by having multiple languages for each document. To simplify the process of reviewing these it was suggested that we use subpackaging. Each SRPM for each language would be wrapped into a single package. I'm adding these three items to the agenda for this week's Docs meeting[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/DocumentationNaming [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/EmbeddedDesktopFiles [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_Steering_Committee_meetings Thanks, Eric

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Help needed today and tomorrow
by John J. McDonough 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Tomorrow's string freeze sort of snuck up on us, and we could use all hands on deck between now and tomorrow night. There are a few items that need someone to research and develop some content for, and there are also a few places where we could get some help converting the wiki content to xml. Fortunately, most of the work is done, but there are some holes, a few critical, so if you can spare some time, please raise your hand. Even if you are not an expert on something, you can check the beta repo version against the current and then track down the upstream's release notes to develop some content. Although it might not be as good as having an expert do it, it certainly is better than leaving the user hanging. Places we need content: - Architecture specific notes - Networking (Ryan Lerch?) - Printing - Games and Entertainment - Live spins - Boot time - Security - Servers - Mail, Web, Database, File (Andrew Ross?) - System Daemons - Server tools - File systems (David Nally?) - I have the feeling we are missing some stuff in Scientific and Technical but I haven't had an opportunity to research it fully Larger conversion pieces: - Virtualization - Kernel (lots of little pieces, tho) xml conversion requires git access. The current state of the xml is at http://jjmcd.fedorapeople.org/Download/Release_Notes.pdf (of course this will change frequently during the day. The real authority is git, and I will endeavor to keep the latest content pushed.) So we don't trip over each other, why don't I coordinate the noon to midnight zulu time period, and hopefully Ryan Lerch can organize the midnight to noon shift. I assume that Ryan and myself will be doing anything that someone else doesn't cover. --McD

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[Fwd: Re: Testing the Fedora 11 Installation Guide]
by Paul W. Frields 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi Docs team, I didn't know if the IG guru was on fedora-test-list. This seemed like a worthwhile suggestion; maybe the author could be persuaded to file a bug! PWF. ----- Forwarded message from Gireesh Sreekantan <sgireeshmail(a)gmail.com> ----- From: Gireesh Sreekantan <sgireeshmail(a)gmail.com> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:29:51 +0530 Subject: Re: Testing the Fedora 11 Installation Guide X-BeenThere: fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com > As you can see, essentially what we'd like you to do is to take a look > at the Fedora 11 Installation Guide as it currently stands - it's at > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/ - and try installing either > Fedora 11 Beta or current Rawhide according to the instructions found in > the Installation Guide. Should section 7.2 of the install guide have more detail about this feature? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NewTextUI As the developer himself recommends, should users be recommended to try xdriver=vesa before resorting to text mode? ----- End forwarded message -----

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Fedora Docs Meeting Reminder
by Eric Christensen 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

REMINDER: There will be a Fedora Docs Meeting today at 0001 UTC. The agenda can be found at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_Steering_Committee_meetings

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