On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 21:10 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: > Am Samstag, den 20.08.2005, 14:34 +0100 schrieb Stuart Ellis: > > On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 12:45 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: > > > > > - 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 > > > > One of the main ideas of the Fedora Project is that it's community > > driven, i.e. it provides a framework to enable people to do the things > > that they themselves consider important. The Docs Project provides > > various kinds of support and infrastructure for publishing and > > maintaining documentation, but they are really processes and don't > > impose restrictions on content. > > Fully agreed. But :-) > > In order to achieve a comprehensive and well structured "Fedora > Documentation" I suppose some over all planning is helpful. And despite > being community driven somebody has to make the initial step. I think > the FDSCo is the only one who can this do. > > Such a framework being available may inspire one of the other lurkers > here to contribute a chapter. > > (By the way would be interesting why a lot of people are just lurking. > May be they have no time left, may be they get no idea what to > contribute under the restriction of their time table). I guess that you are envisaging a single large document. We've tended to aim for smaller and focused documents, as they get rapidly get harder for a volunteer project to produce and maintain to a consistent standard as they increase in scale. Having said that, one of the ideas currently on the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/DocIdeas is for a Fedora Desktop Guide, which breaks up into chapters. This could probably be done with 2-4 people. > > We have a "New Writers" page which we push as much as we can: > > > > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/NewWriters > > > > If there a way that we can make this easier to find, or clearer, then > > please let me know. > > OK, this is highly speculative and to some extend a matter of personal > taste. But perhaps there is too much information about too many > different topics on the initial page > ( http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/ ). Thanks - this was very helpful. The main page and the New Writers page have now been restructured. -- Stuart Ellis stuart@xxxxxxxx Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/ GPG key ID: 7098ABEA GPG key fingerprint: 68B0 E291 FB19 C845 E60E 9569 292E E365 7098 ABEA
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