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Self Introduction: Otto Urpelainen
by Otto Urpelainen 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

Greetings, I have been using Fedora since 2013 and started contributing in the beginning of 2021 by adopting some orphaned packages, doing package reviews and submitting patches for various tools. I recently volunteered to move Fedora Package Maintainer docs from the old wiki system [1] to docs.fedoraproject.org. Supposedly, I will also be involved in maintaining the new system afterwards. Thus I decided to join the docs mailing list, too. My plan for Package Maintainer docs migration is to first reset the old, unfinished attempt at pagure.io/fedora-docs/package-maintainer-docs to use the fedora-docs/template, then convert existing material on the wiki with pandoc. If anybody knows a better way, please let me know. Otto Urpelainen [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Package_Maintainers

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Subject: Hema: Introducing myself
by Hema ranjan 27 May '21

27 May '21

Hi Doc team, I am Hema from India. I am currently working as an Academic writer for Evelyn learning systems, we Author solutions for CourseHero, both online and textbook. I also Freelance for Chegg. I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. During the course of my research, I have extracted Bug reports from Bug repositories (Jira), Reviews from ReviewBoard, and user comments from YouTube using python-Jira, RBTools, and YouTube data API python packages respectively, Transformed these data into the desired format and loaded them into PostgreSQL database. Have built and manipulated PostgreSQL database. Have worked with Topic models, Statistical language models, and statistical information retrieval models. Have mined unstructured software artifacts such as IRC meetings log, Bug report, and Reviews using various statistical models, Processed data using preprocessing techniques, and visualized data using python packages. I have been using Fedora all through my research. Now would like to contribute. I am currently going through ASCIIDoc and would like to contribute to the documentation part while sharpening my technical skills. Would love to start working. Thanks in advance.

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Customer Ref: PO-21025; Our Ref
by Mahmood＠fedoraproject.org 26 May '21

26 May '21

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docs.fpo editing link
by Francois Andrieu 26 May '21

26 May '21

Hello, I've noticed the "edit this page" on translated pages is incorrect/non-working, as it redirect to a non-existing local path (file:///tmp/tmphvbofl0 ...). example here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/es/fedora/f33/ I think it may be confusing for people desiring to translate or edit the documentation, so I propose to: - remove this link on translated pages only. I think no link is better than a broken one. - add a "translate this page" or "edit this translation" (or something like that) that redirect to translate.fpo I haven't found any mention to translate.fpo in https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-docs/, and I think this should be a valuable information for people willing to contribute to the documentation. What do you think ?

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RECONFIRM BANK DETAILS FOR PAYMENT
by David＠fedoraproject.org 21 May '21

21 May '21

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Re: Purchase Order (Ref: PO-11059021022021) - Project: Redhill L14
by JCTEX＠fedoraproject.org 19 May '21

19 May '21

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"How to debug printer problems" docs
by Brandon Nielsen 14 May '21

14 May '21

Owing my interest in printing and easily locatable documentation, I volunteered to port the "How to debug printing problems" wiki page[0] to somewhere in the docs. I have suggested[1] it would probably fit as a Quick Doc, but wanted to see if anyone had any other ideas before I got too far along. [0] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_printing_problems [1] - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org…

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Introducing Myself
by Tom Cummings 11 May '21

11 May '21

Hello everyone. I'm Tom Cummings. I'm from the US. I've recently retired from a full-time corporate job in IT. I worked in many positions from help desk to team and department management. I focused on infrastructure, systems/server administration, and system design. I am not a developer, but I have worked with dev teams and software development projects for z-series, i-series, and distributed platforms. I have basic skills in Perl and Python coding. I have worked with international and remote teams across the world. I speak and understand (very rusty) German. I have a BA in History, Germanic Languages and Literature, MBA in IT Management. I've been using Linux for +20 years - Red Hat, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Slackware, Ubuntu, and, most recently, Fedora. The IT environment I worked in was primarily MS/Windows, but with a significant Linux/Unix footprint. Currently, I am working my way through the Linux Foundation Cloud Engineering boot camp, but I don't have much practical experience in that space. I'm working my way through the Fedora Docs team Contributing guide ( https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-docs/contributing/) and learning AsciiDoc. I'll also work on setting up a workspace with Git and Vim. I'd like to contribute to documentation in a way that is most helpful to the Fedora community while continuing to sharpen my technical capabilities, especially with servers and cloud engineering. That said, I am ready to help on whatever needs to be done. Thanks. Tom Cummings

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Self introduction
by Peter W Smith 06 May '21

06 May '21

Hi everyone, A short message to introduce myself. I'm Peter Smith, originally from the UK but living in the Netherlands. I work as a Technical Writer for a marine propulsion manufacturer, but don't get to do any software writing as part of my work. Before I got this job I was studying for the RHCSA exam and heading down a sysadmin path, so that's the area where most of my software knowledge is. I have some experience with using Go, Python and a little bit of Ruby as well. I also worked as a linguist at universities in the USA and Germany for a decade and for my academic publishing used LaTeX extensively, and from that I developed an interest in many different content management systems. I have been using Linux for a few years now, and Fedora for most of that time so it's nice to be a part of the project. I'll contribute in whatever way I can and keep my eye out for things that I can pick up. I started recently with doing some of the release notes for Fedora 34, and will watch the repo and quick-docs issue page. Here's my gpg info: gpg --fingerprint 0B12A0BB pub rsa4096 2020-09-28 [SC] 565F 35FB 9642 5C92 C2CC BCD1 AE88 BC51 0B12 A0BB uid [ unknown] Peter W Smith <peter.w.smith16(a)gmail.com> All the best, Pete -- Peter Smith https://pwsmith.github.io

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New version document (specifically 34), does not contain additional guidelines to modify the installation to more closely resemble the settings of a freshly installed one
by Alireza Haghshenas 02 May '21

02 May '21

Consider this scenario: I have installed 33 (KDE) and decided to upgrade to 34, in part to benefit from the change to pipewire. After the upgrade, I discover that the system's audio stability is now much worse than before. Also, it appears that pipewire is not my default audio server. So most QAs regarding similar problems in 34 do not apply to me. My system is in an intermediate state between 33 and 34. I don't have the statistics, but I expect that a non-negligible percentage of each version's users should be people who have upgraded from a previous version. If there is no guideline for them, they will not benefit from these changes. So here is my suggestion: A section be added to the "Upgrading Your Current System" document on how to enable some of the changes that will be default in the latest release. For instance: ## Setting Pipewire as the default audio service In 34, pipewire is now the default audio service, you can read more about this change (here)[link] and follow (these)[link] steps to modify your current system to match these new defaults. Or alternatively: You can run this command to modify your default: `command`

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