10:15 p.m.
Hello, I have been an avid user of both XFCE and Fedora. I was
wondering if I could possibly enlist to help out in the XFCE SIG? I am
currently looking to help with XFCE itself as a developer and help with
Documentation. I also wanted to do my part for my favourite
distribution as well. Please any information you could give me would be
great.
12:42 a.m.
Am Sonntag, den 16.01.2011, 23:15 -0500 schrieb Brock Hudson:
Hello, I have been an avid user of both XFCE and Fedora. I was
wondering if I could possibly enlist to help out in the XFCE SIG? I am
currently looking to help with XFCE itself as a developer and help with
Documentation. I also wanted to do my part for my favourite
distribution as well. Please any information you could give me would be
great.
Hi Brock,
thanks for your interest in helping us. We can use any helping hand, so
there is a couple of things you can do:
* You can test updates and provide feedback in bodhi. No special
group membership required.
* You can make suggestions for the package selection of the Xfce
Spin.
* There hardly is any documentation in Fedora and Kevin and me are
no documentation guys. If you want to help here, please get in
touch with John Babich. It would be awesome if we had a proper
documentation for Xfce 4.8 in Fedora 15.
* Although we imported Xfce 4.8 into rawhide yesterday, there is
still a lot of polishing to do. One thing I want to do is change
xfce4-icon-theme to follow the freedesktop icon naming spec and
fix all ion names in the code, otherwise users cannot freely
select their icon theme. This will be a huge task. I hope we can
get it done in Fedora and then push the changes upstream into
Xfce 4.8.1.
* AFAICS you are currently not member of any group but have
applied to become a tester. If you are interested in package
maintenance, become a packager, but Kevin and me do get along
quite well, so there is no urgent need.
* It would be nice if we could re-introduce the (bi)weekly IRC
meetings.
Joining the Xfce SIG is easy:
1. Add yourself to
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Xfce#Participants
2. Add the https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Template:Xfce_SIG_Member
to your userpage
3. Communicate with us on this list
4. If you have ideas how to make Xfce in Fedora better, just let us
know.
Welcome aboard the Xfce SIG!
Regards,
Christoph
2:14 p.m.
* There hardly is any documentation in Fedora and Kevin and me
are
no documentation guys. If you want to help here, please get in
touch with John Babich. It would be awesome if we had a proper
documentation for Xfce 4.8 in Fedora 15.
I'm involved in the Fedora Docs Project, and I've been trying to keep
Xfce-related things updated and add missing bits here and there.
Updating the existing documentation for Xfce 4.8 is going to be a big
job though, so any help would be much appreciated! See
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_Docs_Project for more info -
documentation is written in Docbook XML and managed using the awesome
Publican toolchain, but if you'd prefer to use the wiki or even just
plain text I'd be happy to do the XML/git/Publican bits for you, just
give me a shout!
Christoph (or anyone!), what do you think needs adding to the Fedora
Xfce documentation? There's a brief outline of the Xfce desktop in the
User Guide
(http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/User_Guide/chap-User_G...),
as well as notes on claws-mail, abiword and one or two other
applications. What else would you like to see covered?
Best wishes,
Nathan
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