F15 Release Notes Amendment for RPM?
by Christopher Antila
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Hello:
I was reading a blog posted to Planet Fedora[0], and found the following
paragraph:
"I did notice one quirk they kind of bugged me, while this is not a bug, and
it is in fact an intentional change, I don’t understand the methodology behind
the change. I’m talking about the fact that if you ever create your own RPMs
and Fedora things have become slightly more confusing. It used to be that all
you needed to do in order to sign and build RPM packages was to install the
development tools group from Yum. It seems for whatever reason they’ve taken
the GPG signing integration out of RPM by default. This functionality can of
course be added back, but it requires installing a separate package. There’s
absolutely no documentation that I’ve been able to find that explains the
reasoning behind this change, or even that the change took place. I literally
spent three hours trying to sign a package through RPM only to find that some
person on a forum somewhere discovered that this RPM signing functionality was
moved into a separate package called rpm-sign."
Should this change be documented in the release notes? Should it be added now?
Christopher.
[0] http://www.andyjamison.com/andy/2011/06/23/final-thoughts-on-ubuntu-11-04-
and-
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12 years, 10 months
Re: Proposal: end Gilligan's Island copyright notices in Fedora docs
by Christopher Antila
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Ubuntu:
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The Ubuntu guides are published in a frameless format, and the bottom of every
page contains the following statement:
"The material in this document is available under a free license, see Legal
for details"
"Legal" is a link to this page: https://help.ubuntu.com/legal.html
The legal page contains a brief explanation of the CC-BY-SA licence that the
project uses, along with a link to another web page that lists all contributor
to the Ubuntu Documentation Team. They don't appear to have specific
instructions on how their documentation should be attributed when borrowed.
OpenSUSE:
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The official documentation is available here: http://doc.opensuse.org/
Their guides begin with a copyright statement similar to ours, giving a
publication date, assigning copyright to "Novell, Inc. and contributors" and
deferring to the GNU FDL licence.
There is an "About This Guide" chapter, analogous to the Preface in Fedora
guides. There is an "Acknowledgements" section that's similar to, but more
generous than, the "Acknowledgements" section in some Fedora guides.
N.B. They have a style guide and two documentation guides that may be of
interest to us. See previous link.
SUSE Linux:
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The last chapter of each official document is called "Legal," and it contains
the licence for the document. Copyright is owned by Novell, Inc., and specific
authors are not mentioned.
Debian:
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Their documentation is less standardized. Each document seems to have its own
(similar) copyright statement, assigning copyright to specific people who
contributed to the document. Most documents use the GNU GPL. Some documents
have a section with more detailed "thanks" and attribution.
Gentoo:
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All contributors to a document are listed on the far right side of each page,
in a column. The bottom of most pages gives the licence (CC-BY-SA 2.5 by
default), and underneath that (on all pages) is a statement assigning
copyright to "Gentoo Foundation, Inc."
GNOME:
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I can't find standardized legal information, but some documents have a
statement like on this page:
http://library.gnome.org/users/dasher/unstable/index-info.html.en
All pages have the following notice at the very bottom:
"Copyright (c) 2005-2011 The GNOME Project"
This is too vague.
KDE:
- ----
Each handbook has a list of "developers" at the top (I can only guess this is
documentation developers), in addition to copyright notices for specific
authors. This is confusing, and I'm not sure who should receive attribution.
There is also a link to a "Legal Notice," which is a statement that the
documents are subject to the GNU FDL.
Conclusions:
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We're exploring new territory. For the projects that I inspected, I cannot find
anything that is more specific or useful than Fedora's current solution; some
other projects are equally specific.
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12 years, 10 months
Gnome 3 Guidance
by Joshua Wulf
Jun 23 09:53:27 <jwulf> Gnome 3 Content Spec is now online:
Jun 23 09:53:41 <jwulf>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_User_Guide_Gnome_3_Chapter
...
Jun 23 09:55:49 <rudi> I have reservations about it; but I'll save them
for the list
I caught up with Rudi IRL today, and he expressed concern that some of
the Gnome 3 guidance proposed in the content spec falls outside the
scope of the F15 User Guide.
I was going start working on the Gnome 3 content this weekend, but I'll
give a little more time for feedback and discussion of the content spec,
and work on something else this weekend.
- Josh
12 years, 10 months
Fedora Docs Meeting Minutes
by Eric Christensen
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Fedora Docs meeting minutes for 23 June 2011
Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-22/fedora_docs.20...
Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-22/fedora_docs.20...
Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-22/fedora_docs.20...
Meeting summary
- ---------------
* Roll Call (sparks, 23:00:30)
* Follow up on last week's action items (sparks, 23:04:20)
* ACTION: jjmcd to check with dgrift on Ubuntu migration /
policycoreutils (sparks, 23:05:27)
* ACTION: jjmcd and rudi to continue to follow up on non-Latin
characters in web (sparks, 23:06:30)
* ACTION: rudi to continue to follow up on FOP issue (sparks,
23:07:46)
* ACTION: sparks to blog for help with FOP (sparks, 23:07:58)
* rudi made some progress with a band-aid for FOP but doesn't like the
fix. (sparks, 23:08:27)
* LINK: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=249461
(sparks, 23:09:39)
* special thanks to sgordon for FOP assistance this week too (rudi,
23:10:20)
* ACTION: sgordon to work on the AmazonEC2 chapter of the Cloud Guide
(sparks, 23:10:38)
* sparks is publishing the draft version of the Cloud Guide to
docs.fp.o every Monday (sparks, 23:11:01)
* Publican/pdf - Build system status (sparks, 23:14:15)
* Goals for FAD @ OLF (sparks, 23:22:47)
* OLF == Ohio Linux Fest (sparks, 23:23:00)
* ACTION: sparks to talk about FAD @ OLF on the Docs list (sparks,
23:33:53)
* ACTION: sparks to work on teleconference setup (sparks, 23:34:23)
* ACTION: sparks to work with OLF folks to figure out a good time for
the event. (sparks, 23:35:10)
* Guide Status (sparks, 23:36:22)
* The Documentation Guide could use some work. (sparks, 23:37:54)
* The Cloud Guide is in development and draft version is being updated
every Monday on docs.fp.o (sparks, 23:38:14)
* Outstanding BZ Tickets (sparks, 23:42:44)
* LINK: http://tinyurl.com/lbrq84 (sparks, 23:42:56)
* Docs QA (sparks, 23:43:19)
* ACTION: sparks to update the Docs list on Docs QA (sparks,
23:44:32)
* Open floor discussion (sparks, 23:45:36)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_User_Guide_Gnome_3_Chapter
(jwulf, 23:53:42)
Meeting ended at 23:56:11 UTC.
Action Items
- ------------
* jjmcd to check with dgrift on Ubuntu migration / policycoreutils
* jjmcd and rudi to continue to follow up on non-Latin characters in web
* rudi to continue to follow up on FOP issue
* sparks to blog for help with FOP
* sgordon to work on the AmazonEC2 chapter of the Cloud Guide
* sparks to talk about FAD @ OLF on the Docs list
* sparks to work on teleconference setup
* sparks to work with OLF folks to figure out a good time for the event.
* sparks to update the Docs list on Docs QA
Action Items, by person
- -----------------------
* jjmcd
* jjmcd to check with dgrift on Ubuntu migration / policycoreutils
* jjmcd and rudi to continue to follow up on non-Latin characters in
web
* rudi
* jjmcd and rudi to continue to follow up on non-Latin characters in
web
* rudi to continue to follow up on FOP issue
* sgordon
* sgordon to work on the AmazonEC2 chapter of the Cloud Guide
* sparks
* sparks to blog for help with FOP
* sparks to talk about FAD @ OLF on the Docs list
* sparks to work on teleconference setup
* sparks to work with OLF folks to figure out a good time for the
event.
* sparks to update the Docs list on Docs QA
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* sparks (105)
* rudi (33)
* jjmcd (24)
* jwulf (13)
* sgordon (10)
* fnadge (6)
* suehle (3)
* joat (3)
* zodbot (3)
* jhradilek (2)
* rbergeron (1)
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12 years, 10 months
Gnome 3 content spec
by Joshua Wulf
Folks,
Here is my draft Gnome 3 UG content specification.
I'd like to get feedback on what's missing from this.
Do we have a place on the wiki to host content specs?
- Josh
Fedora 15 User Guide: Gnome 3 Chapter
Introducing Gnome 3
- Fedora 15 includes Gnome 3
Brief History of Gnome
Gnome 3 design philosophy
- Reducing distractions
- Future direction:
Gnome 3.1
Zeitgeist / Gnome Activity Journal
Key differences from Gnome 2
- task list is gone
- nautilus changes
- going up a directory
- notifications
Limitations
- can't create custom launchers
Customizing Gnome 3 with shell extensions
- alternate-tab
- alternative-status-menu
- auto-move-windows
- dock
- drive-menu
- native-window-placement
- places-menu
- user-theme
- windowsNavigator
Other customization options
- Docky
- gnome-activity-journal
- gnome-tweak-tools
Workspaces
- workspaces described
Accessibility options
System settings
- Gnome Control Center
How to:
Log in
Log out
Shut down
Start an application
Switch between running applications
- switch between windows
Maximize a window
Unmaximize a window
Tile windows side-by-side
Float a window above other windows
Change workspaces
Move a window between workspaces
Change the default application used to open a file
Add an application as a favorite
- Docky
- Gnome dock
Monitor system resources
- gnome-system-monitor
Reference:
Gnome 3 keyboard shortcuts
12 years, 10 months
Transifex: translations missing from guide repo
by Nathan Thomas
Hi all,
I've received bug report BZ#714735 about the Bulgarian translation of
the Live Image Guide. There's no folder for Bulgarian in the Live Image
Guide git repo, and when I run 'tx pull -all', the Bulgarian translation
isn't pulled (same with the Czech translation, and maybe a few others).
Is there anything I need to do to set up these translations in the git
repo?
Also, I've noticed that some languages have two entries in the Transifex
list - for example, Dutch has 'nl' and 'nl_NL'. In some cases a lot of
work is going into the short-named translation (e.g. 'nl'), but only
changes made to the long-named translation (e.g. 'nl-NL') seem to be
pulled to the git repo when I run 'tx pull'.
See
https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/fedora-readme-live-images/resource/F...
Thanks
Nathan
12 years, 10 months
Agreement
by Mark Raymond Jr.
Yea, I signed the Agreement!
12 years, 10 months
