Aloha all, I have the aforementioned pieces done. It is mostly links to some other pages and could be combined at some point. Please find it copied into this email following. Hopefully this helps. Mahalo, Edward ===== 1.) The first step in joining the Fedora Documentation Project is to join the community and engage in the discussion. Subscribe to the fedora-docs-list, fedora-dsco-list and fedora-announce-list to keep up to date and informed about the project and Fedora in general. The links can be found at https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list, http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list and https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-dsco-list. After visiting the pages and filling in the needed information an automated email message will be sent. Choose to follow the link or respond to the email as outlined in the instructions contained in the emails. Please note that to be part of the Fedora Documentation Project you have to join the fedora-docs-list. 2.) Next, ensure that the proper tool chain is installed. The first tools that should be installed are Yum and/or up2date. These Software Management Utilities will ensure that all software packages are current and aid in installing those not already installed. Both are installed by default on Fedora Core 5 but this can be checked using rpm. [edward@edward ~]$ rpm -qa up2date up2date-4.4.23-4 [edward@edward ~]$ rpm -qa yum yum-2.4.1-1.fc Either package will work for managing software packages. After that, setup Privacy Guard Software and utilities to manage the GPG keys. Use GPG to identify yourself and authenticate your communications, even with people you don't know. GPG allows anyone reading a GPG-signed email to verify its authorship. In other words, GPG allows someone to be reasonably certain that communications signed by you actually come from you. GPG is useful because it helps prevent mischievous third parties from polluting code or conversations by masquerading as other entities. To participate in any part of the Fedora Project, - you should have a GPG key pair, and - your public key must be available on pgp.mit.edu, a well-known public keyserver. Some Privacy Guard Software and Management Utilities include: I.) GnuPG http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cryptography has a wonderful explanation on how to install openssh and GnuPG. II.) Seahorse Seahorse is a GUI utility to manage keys. Go to http://seahorse.sourceforge.net/ for information on installing and using this utility. III.) KGpg KGpg is the KDE GPG key manager and can be installed via yum if not already installed. Information and instructions can be found at http://developer.kde.org/~kgpg/ An editor also needs to be installed to work with documents. Vi, Emacs and OpenOffice.org Writer will all work and it is mostly a matter of preference. Last but certainly not least, see if a few handy utilities to process documents are installed. CVS, xmlto and/or the Docbook files to work with the Wiki are all useful and necessary. 3.) After GnuPG is installed go to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/UsingGpg/CreatingKeys and follow the instructions there to generate a GPG key pair. For additional information the Legacy site http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legacy/PGPHowTo has a lot of good information on key pair generation and use as well. Then setup your email program to work with GnuPG so that signing and verification of emails is possible. Instructions for each can be found as follows: I.) Evolution A helpful page is located at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/UsingGpg/WithEvolution II.) Thunderbird Has help located here, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/UsingGpg/WithThunderbird III.) Kmail Located here http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/UsingGpg/WithKmail is still a work in progress and IV.) Pine Located here http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/UsingGpg/WithKmail is also a work in progress. ===
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