On 02/03/2011 08:49 PM, Jonathan Q. wrote: > Hi. There's a note on this document > (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Nagios) that it appears to be abandoned > and unmaintained. Since I'm working through the document to install > Nagios, and taking fairly extensive notes on the process, I would like > to bring it up to date. But, since I've not worked on an open source > documentation project before, I'm not sure how to proceed. Basically, > I'm clueless right now. :-) If someone could give me a little > guidance, I would greatly appreciate it! > > A couple of initial questions: > > Do I need to attempt to contact the original author for permission to > update and maintain the document? > Generally speaking, it is polite to do so, yes. But technically speaking - the whole content of the wiki is licensed under a "Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License" so anyone ( more or less ...) may edit it - the page under discussion starts with "Note added 28 July 2010: This piece seems to be abandoned, is unmaintained" so I am sure that a new owner will be welcomed. > > I've saved a copy to my local machine and I'm working on it there. Is > that the best way? How do I then submit the updated document for > publication? > > Anything else that would be good to know? :-) > Actually it's pretty simple since it is a wiki and we encourage users to expand / fix it. Since you are a newcomer I suggest the following approach: - create an account in the wiki - submit here your suggested changes ( for instance by posting a link to a page hosting your modified version of the page or simply listing the changes as list in the mail; any reasonable method would be) - once the changes are reviewed, ask for permission to include them in the wiki - an administrator will give you the appropriate rights - fix it - let everyone rejoice -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20110204/f7908bbb/attachment.html
