Dear docs team,
I found a mistake on the wiki (Fedora 28 needs to be added to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_bugs) and wanted to report or fix it, but it looks like to fix it, I now need one non-CLA group. The Docs group looked the most likely for this scenario, but based on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_Docs_Project , it looks like you expect an introduction and ongoing involvement, which I'm not willing to commit to. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reporting_problems_with_Docs#I_found_a_proble... didn't give me any help either.
Is there a process for people who just want to report or fix one mistake on the wiki? Have I missed a previous discussion of this? Or should I pose the question elsewhere? I didn't find anything useful here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+group+to+join+if+I+just+want+to+contrib... https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/search?q=contribute+to+wiki https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/search?q=contribute+to+wiki+group
If you are willing to count this as my introduction and grant me access (FAS mattmccutchen) without an expectation of ongoing involvement, I will be happy to update the relevant places on the wiki. I've been using Fedora for 13 years and have a modest history of useful wiki contributions from before the restriction was introduced, though I've never been involved deeply enough with anything to join a non-CLA group:
https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&cont...
However, my question stands what new users should do.
Thanks for your attention!
Matt
Hi Matt,
Our contributor docs aren't really up to date at all. We're aware of the mess, it should hopefully change in the near future, but right now it's really bad as you found out.
I added the missing link to the common bugs page, thanks for reporting it.
Regarding wiki edit rights for any future contributions you might want to make: the requirement for a non-CLA group membership is unfortunate but it's here to stay, and yes, the docs group (and this list) seems like a good place to ask questions. The problem is, we just cleaned up the group maybe a month ago and removed something like 80% of all members because they were no longer active at all, and going forward we'd like to be able to rely on the people in that group being somewhat active, so I'm wary of adding people who state upfront they don't want to do that, although I do understand your situation.
Anyway: there is a group called "wikiedit", a membership in that will give you wiki edit rights without any expectation of active participation, as far as I'm aware. Open an issue against the fedora-infrastructure repo on Pagure to gain access. Here's an example of such a ticket: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/6841
Hope that helps; let me know if I can do anything else for you.
Petr
On 05/20/2018 09:44 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
Dear docs team,
I found a mistake on the wiki (Fedora 28 needs to be added to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_bugs) and wanted to report or fix it, but it looks like to fix it, I now need one non-CLA group. The Docs group looked the most likely for this scenario, but based on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_Docs_Project , it looks like you expect an introduction and ongoing involvement, which I'm not willing to commit to. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reporting_problems_with_Docs#I_found_a_proble... didn't give me any help either.
Is there a process for people who just want to report or fix one mistake on the wiki? Have I missed a previous discussion of this? Or should I pose the question elsewhere? I didn't find anything useful here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+group+to+join+if+I+just+want+to+contrib... https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/search?q=contribute+to+wiki https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/search?q=contribute+to+wiki+group
If you are willing to count this as my introduction and grant me access (FAS mattmccutchen) without an expectation of ongoing involvement, I will be happy to update the relevant places on the wiki. I've been using Fedora for 13 years and have a modest history of useful wiki contributions from before the restriction was introduced, though I've never been involved deeply enough with anything to join a non-CLA group:
https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&cont...
However, my question stands what new users should do.
Thanks for your attention!
Matt _______________________________________________ docs mailing list -- docs@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to docs-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/docs@lists.fedoraproject.org/m...
Hi Petr,
Thanks so much for the information! Looks like the wikiedit group is what I was looking for. Unfortunately, I'm now under contract with a new employer that makes it unclear whether I can contribute to the contributor docs, but I'll check back once this contract ends (end of June).
Matt
On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 17:41 +0200, Petr Bokoc wrote:
Hi Matt,
Our contributor docs aren't really up to date at all. We're aware of the mess, it should hopefully change in the near future, but right now it's really bad as you found out.
I added the missing link to the common bugs page, thanks for reporting it.
Regarding wiki edit rights for any future contributions you might want to make: the requirement for a non-CLA group membership is unfortunate but it's here to stay, and yes, the docs group (and this list) seems like a good place to ask questions. The problem is, we just cleaned up the group maybe a month ago and removed something like 80% of all members because they were no longer active at all, and going forward we'd like to be able to rely on the people in that group being somewhat active, so I'm wary of adding people who state upfront they don't want to do that, although I do understand your situation.
Anyway: there is a group called "wikiedit", a membership in that will give you wiki edit rights without any expectation of active participation, as far as I'm aware. Open an issue against the fedora-infrastructure repo on Pagure to gain access. Here's an example of such a ticket: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/6841
Hope that helps; let me know if I can do anything else for you.
Petr
On 05/20/2018 09:44 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
Dear docs team,
I found a mistake on the wiki (Fedora 28 needs to be added to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_bugs) and wanted to report or fix it, but it looks like to fix it, I now need one non-CLA group. The Docs group looked the most likely for this scenario, but based on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_Docs_Project , it looks like you expect an introduction and ongoing involvement, which I'm not willing to commit to. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reporting_problems_with_Docs#I_found_a_proble... didn't give me any help either.
Is there a process for people who just want to report or fix one mistake on the wiki? Have I missed a previous discussion of this? Or should I pose the question elsewhere? I didn't find anything useful here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+group+to+join+if+I+just+want+to+contrib... https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/search?q=contribute+to+wiki https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/search?q=contribute+to+wiki+group
If you are willing to count this as my introduction and grant me access (FAS mattmccutchen) without an expectation of ongoing involvement, I will be happy to update the relevant places on the wiki. I've been using Fedora for 13 years and have a modest history of useful wiki contributions from before the restriction was introduced, though I've never been involved deeply enough with anything to join a non-CLA group:
https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&cont...
However, my question stands what new users should do.
Thanks for your attention!
Matt _______________________________________________ docs mailing list -- docs@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to docs-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/docs@lists.fedoraproject.org/m...
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FYI, I got wikiedit access and have updated the documentation to point other people to get wikiedit access if appropriate. Thanks again.
Matt
On Sun, 2018-05-27 at 14:50 +0100, Matt McCutchen wrote:
Hi Petr,
Thanks so much for the information! Looks like the wikiedit group is what I was looking for. Unfortunately, I'm now under contract with a new employer that makes it unclear whether I can contribute to the contributor docs, but I'll check back once this contract ends (end of June).
Matt
On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 17:41 +0200, Petr Bokoc wrote:
Hi Matt,
Our contributor docs aren't really up to date at all. We're aware of the mess, it should hopefully change in the near future, but right now it's really bad as you found out.
I added the missing link to the common bugs page, thanks for reporting it.
Regarding wiki edit rights for any future contributions you might want to make: the requirement for a non-CLA group membership is unfortunate but it's here to stay, and yes, the docs group (and this list) seems like a good place to ask questions. The problem is, we just cleaned up the group maybe a month ago and removed something like 80% of all members because they were no longer active at all, and going forward we'd like to be able to rely on the people in that group being somewhat active, so I'm wary of adding people who state upfront they don't want to do that, although I do understand your situation.
Anyway: there is a group called "wikiedit", a membership in that will give you wiki edit rights without any expectation of active participation, as far as I'm aware. Open an issue against the fedora-infrastructure repo on Pagure to gain access. Here's an example of such a ticket: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/684 1
Hope that helps; let me know if I can do anything else for you.
Petr
On 05/20/2018 09:44 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
Dear docs team,
I found a mistake on the wiki (Fedora 28 needs to be added to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_bugs) and wanted to report or fix it, but it looks like to fix it, I now need one non-CLA group. The Docs group looked the most likely for this scenario, but based on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_Docs_Project , it looks like you expect an introduction and ongoing involvement, which I'm not willing to commit to. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reporting_problems_with_Docs#I_fou nd_a_problem_on_the_wiki didn't give me any help either.
Is there a process for people who just want to report or fix one mistake on the wiki? Have I missed a previous discussion of this? Or should I pose the question elsewhere? I didn't find anything useful here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+group+to+join+if+I+just+want +to+contribute+to+fedora+wiki&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/search?q=contribute+to+w iki https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/search?q=contribute+to+w iki+group
If you are willing to count this as my introduction and grant me access (FAS mattmccutchen) without an expectation of ongoing involvement, I will be happy to update the relevant places on the wiki. I've been using Fedora for 13 years and have a modest history of useful wiki contributions from before the restriction was introduced, though I've never been involved deeply enough with anything to join a non-CLA group:
https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributio ns&contribs=user&target=Mattmccutchen&namespace=&tagfilter=&year= 2018&month=-1
However, my question stands what new users should do.
Thanks for your attention!
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