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User Guide TODO list
by Susan Lauber 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

It is rough but there is a list of TODO items for the User Guide at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Laubersm/F13_UG_Update_Checklist For most chapters someone just needs to sit down in front of an F13 system and check for glaring changes. Small chunks of easy work - feel free to grab one (or three). I am continuing work on the Office Suites Chapter - after some sleep.... I'll be in fedora-docs tomorrow. Lots of other people there can probably help fill in the blanks on how to accomplish the TODO items. Thanks, -Susan -- Susan Lauber, (RHCX, RHCA, RHCSS) Lauber System Solutions, Inc. http://www.laubersolutions.com gpg: 15AC F794 A3D9 64D1 D9CE 4C26 EFC3 11C2 BFA1 0974

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Closing bugs
by Paul W. Frields 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

Hi guys, I have a request with regard to closing docs bugs. Although not required, it would be super-helpful if you include a link to the git (or SVN) commit for your fix when you mark a bug as CLOSED. That way anyone cc'd on the bug can click the link and see how you fixed it. Doing this helps optimize transparency and also gives other people who are lurking a better feel for how we fix bugs. Seeing how easy such fixes might be creates a higher potential for getting others involved. -- 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/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com

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Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks
by John Poelstra 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

Start End Name Wed 18-Nov Tue 04-May Create POT files for All Guides Thu 11-Mar Tue 30-Mar Generate nightly POT files all fed-rel-notes.rpm content Wed 31-Mar Wed 31-Mar Remind new guide owners SRPM package review Thu 01-Apr Thu 01-Apr Reminder: Send Project Wide-Final Release Notes Deadlines Thu 01-Apr Thu 01-Apr Beta Project Wide Release Readiness Meeting Thu 01-Apr Mon 05-Apr Create Beta Announcement (Docs & Marketing) Mon 05-Apr Mon 05-Apr Build and Post release-notes to fedorahosted.org Mon 05-Apr Mon 05-Apr Reminder to Development: Wiki Freeze in 7 days Tue 06-Apr Tue 06-Apr Beta Release Public Availability Tue 06-Apr Tue 06-Apr Prepare GA Release Notes Mon 12-Apr Mon 12-Apr String Freeze: GA Release Notes Mon 12-Apr Mon 19-Apr Port diff wiki content to Publican Wed 14-Apr Wed 14-Apr Remind Translation: RPM Freeze (no more POTs) in 5 days

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Mustafa Qasim wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn
by Mustafa Qasim 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

LinkedIn ------------ For, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Mustafa Qasim Mustafa Qasim Advisory Board Member at Pakistan Open Source Foundation Pakistan Confirm that you know Mustafa Qasim https://www.linkedin.com/e/isd/1183429008/uVWH7z5J/ ------ (c) 2010, LinkedIn Corporation

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Ch.7 removal for translation
by Eli 27 Mar '10

27 Mar '10

All, I removed all of Ch.7 and put in the TODO on the User-Guide to get ready for translation like John, Rudi, and I talked about after the meeting. So now it should be ready when the time comes to do the "overhaul" as per the bug that Paul wrote on it. <rudi> Emad78 -- so feel free to just replace the whole of the content of that chapter with <para>TODO</para> or something <rudi> If it's still not done a couple of weeks out from GA, we can just comment out the whole chapter for F13 <Emad78> So delete what's in there? <Emad78> and put in the TODO para. <rudi> yep <jjmcd> yes, that way L10N doesn't waste their time <Emad78> Ok, I will remove the whole chapter then. -- Eli Madrinich elijahm17(a)gmail.com emad78(a)fedoraproject.org

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An interesting Yelp behavior
by John J. McDonough 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

A funny thing happened I thought I would share. I did report this to Shaun McCance by email yesterday, but he is off to a conference so I don't expect to hear from him until next week at best. Over the weekend, Shaun asked why we dropped the GNOME application documentation. Now I hadn't given it a lot of thought. I know I sometimes had seen other stuff in Yelp, but not lately. Since I wasn't responsible for that "other stuff" I assumed others had made some sort of decision and I didn't really give it any thought. Well, while testing the F13 release notes I noticed that at one point I saw the documentation appear. So I did a little test. I made a temporary directory, and moved /usr/share/omf/about-fedora and /usr/share/omf/fedora-release-notes into the temporary directory (on F12). Voila, the GNOME documentation appears. Move either one back and the GNOME docs disappear! I don't know if there is something quirky with our omf files or what. Hopefully Shaun can track down what is happening. --McD

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Fedora 13 Release Notes
by John J. McDonough 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

If anyone would like to try a test install of the draft release notes (English only), a test RPM can be found at http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2062978 Note that this is called "release-notes" rather than "fedora-release-notes" so it will not overwrite your existing release notes and can be safely removed. The beta release notes will appear under System -> Documentation on your menu. For the terminally curious, yes the specfile is a little limited on comments. The file sent to beta will be complete. This one was automatically produced. --McD

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Nightly Builds
by John J. McDonough 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

This release we are doing nightly builds of the release notes and the guides (Items 6 and 28 on poelcat's schedule). David Nalley asked if I would share the script I use so others don't have to re-invent the wheel. In addition, Richy Zhou has built a place on fedorapeople where we can consolidate all the drafts. I've put up a wiki page with my script and a description for getting the documents in the right place: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Draft_documents_for_L10N The script is a little clumsy, I'm sure others can do it better, but at least it is a starting point. Also, rudi has been talking about a web publishing feature that I haven't tried, but perhaps that can make it easier still. --McD

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XML conversion this weekend for TOS textbook
by Karsten Wade 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Some folks around here have expressed interest in helping with DocBook conversion for the Teaching Open Source textbook. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Textbook_Roadmap This is *not* a Fedora 13 guide, it's an upstream book entirely outside of the Fedora Project, but since several people offered to help in the book who are on this list, thought I'd remind you all here. Tomorrow (Friday) we begin conversion to DocBook, specifically Publican formatted. (I'm working on a publican-tos brand package for teachingopensource.org.) I'll do a raw output from MediaWiki using mw-render, then check that work in to SVN. At that point, we'll grab chapters and start editing. We'll be sprinting together in #teachingopensource on irc.freenode.net. After Friday, I expect to have some finishing work over the weekend. If you are available for any of that time and want to work on this conversion, let me know. If you are not on the list, please join: http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41

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helping with [[EPEL]]
by Ian Weller 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

smooge is requesting some non-technical help with EPEL as a part of Max's weekly wiki challenge. His plea copied below: "I know it is late in the week, but I would love to get some help on the EPEL page. I need basically a non-technical look at it. Does it effectively tell what it needs to say? Does it need to be thrown out and rewritten (ok with me.. I just need some direction and help)" (from http://spevack.livejournal.com/102377.html?thread=270825#t270825) Is anybody from Docs up for doing this soonish? I would have the same troubles smooge has right now with reworking the page, so I'm just sending along his ask for help. :) -- Ian Weller <ian(a)ianweller.org> () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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