On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 12:39 -0500, Eric Rostetter wrote: > Quoting Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > > > Whats wrong On Document for deployment of Oracle on fedora or RHEL > > > > > > I am not claiming that its wrong but I would like a discussion (not just > > between us) before it gets accepted officially. So I am dropping off > > this conversation until others participate in it > > I'd like to see it, but I'd like to see it in a separate section, > so that people know that it documents something that is not a part > of Fedora Core releases, but can be used with Fedora Core releases. > > So, I'd vote to have a separate section for non-Fedora Core included > software. I don't care if the software is Open Source or not so much > as I care that it is not part of the distribution, really. I'd consider > it all "Third Party" software, whether open source or not. I think this is not a moot point. Fedora Project is about building a general purpose OS from free components. That includes the documentation. There are plenty of people dedicated to making non-free software work and documenting that. It's really not our purpose here. If we were a general-purpose Linux documentation project like, say, TLDP, then we could consider all cases of everything that runs under Linux. But we are a Fedora documentation project. Until Oracle is open source and shipping as part of Core or Extras, I don't think we can devote any more space to discussing or writing it. > > For your information I have been arguing that LDP move its documentation > > on non-free software to a seperate section or remove it altogether. You > > I agree on the separate section, at least for FDP, but not to remove it. > If people want to write it, it is of high quality and usefulness, then > allow it. But I'd like to make clear that it is separate from the > FC distribution, hence the idea of a separate "Third Party Software" > documentation section. When FC has a Third Party Software repository, we can document it. To be honest, we have enough work to do already without having to do Oracle, Nvidia et al's work for them. - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Red Hat SELinux Guide http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/
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