Am Dienstag, den 16.08.2005, 14:09 -0700 schrieb Karsten Wade: > New $SUBJECT reflects the fact that my semi-punny Subject from before > was too spammy. in the context of this list it's perhaps provoking (in it's best sense), but I think this type of mail is needed ;-) > On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 19:41 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > > Maybe you introduced yourself, or are still lurking. > > > > Perhaps you have a document in progress, or an idea in process. > > > > The Documentation Project needs you to help keep the momentum going. I'm one of those guys who are lurking around and I have several (smaller) pieces of documentation text in my desks drawer. > > > > * What is stopping you from submitting your document? Well, I for myself are suffering from some lack of orientation. I'm not able to see in detail how several of my ideas and my texts may fit into the scene. - I'm missing a list, something like a "Table Of Content", about the topics, which should make up "Fedora Core Documentation" when it is ready. If such a list were available I could check weather one of my texts may fit - I'm missing a list, who is currently working on *what*. There is the bugzilla entry (102668), but it seams to be out of date. (On the web there is a list of who is contributing, but not what) As an example: I just wrote a text (about 8 pages) to assist some of my staff members to set up a samba server on FC 4. I consired to contribute it to the fedora doku project. I found in Bugzilla 102668 that Aaron M. Epps is working on that topic, but I couldn't find information about the details of his work nor about the progress. I found nothing about it in CVS yet. So I don't know how to proceed, and the text is going to vanish in the desk drawer. > > * Do you need more directions? > > * Do you want fewer restrictions? Maybe both of it. Perhaps you should establish some sort of "early stage approval process". Something like: - address to whom send the titel and a draft toc for a documentation text - recieve a decision to accept it for the documentation (if it meets the quality criteria when it is finished) or not (because the topic is out of range, not needed or whatever) - assigning a sponsor to assist in all further steps - establish some sort of feedback procedure. Perhaps the list about maintained and orphaned packages on fedora extra may serve as a template - I read some contributors set up there one web page to present their work in an early stage in order to receive feedback. You may find the addresses in the mail archive but you have to spend some efforts to find it. A link list of such early stage contributions would be helpful. > > The steering committee for this project is here to help you be > > successful working on Fedora documentation. Well, just some ideas from my perspective. I would appreciate if I could contribute some of my texts in a way which is managable for me instead of letting them vanish in the desk drawer :-) Peter -- fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
