FDSCo Meeting 2008-03-05 Summary

Summary of Fedora Documentation Steering Committee (FDSCo) meeting held on Wednesday, 05 March 2008 at 20:00 hrs UTC Attendees: ------------- Jared Smith (jsmith) Karsten Wade (quaid) John Babich (jbabich) Robert "Bob" Jensen (evilbob) Paul Frields (stickster) Bart Couvreur (couf) Summary: ------------- * Old business (last week's meeting) - FDSCo has a new vice chair, jmbuser, with 4 of the 5 present voting, 1 abstaining * Lowering the barriers for contributors - "sign up, agree, and edit" in one go * Wiki gardening - In preparation for migration from MoinMoin wiki to MediaWiki - we need this sorted out before F9 drops or we'll have the same mess as usual - the goal is to enable maintainers as well as contributors to be effective, easily and early - eradicated Docs and Draft namespaces makes sense; the whole wiki == docs - hierarchy of project_area and content_area should be good enough - finalize the DUG and AG, to enable progress on GIG (Getting Involved Guide) and other docs ACTIONS - Clean up MoinMoin Wiki - Get familiar with MediaWiki features - Finalize DUG and AG * Relnotes one sheet - looks good so far; getting more attention - later parse some of that back into the Beats * Release Beats - Upcoming Wiki freeze is 16 March - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule - schedule is basically accurate for here on out ACTION - Finalize Release Beats before 16 March freeze