I read through the information in the wiki and did not see anywhere an explicit mission statement about the Docs Project. Specifically what I was looking for was information as to who the documentation was geared for. The 'Documentation' link on the front page of the Fedora Project wiki brings up an unclear picture of the documentation as well. The designation between the target audiences is not clearly defined, flowing from [End User] Published Documents and Draft Documents right into New Contributors and Developers.
From what I have seen, there are three major categories that documentation falls under. 1) The End User [defined below]; 2) The Developer; 3) Other contributors.
For me, the End User is the person looking to install and use Fedora Linux. This person may be a home user doing email and watching videos on the web; or the office worker doing email, documents and spreadsheets; or the administrator supporting the office worker; or the web developer who is doing their work on Linux. [+1]
Those who are involved in the development of Fedora Linux or contribute in other ways are separate from the End User. There was some talk at FUDCon about dividing the front page into three sections... End User, Contributor, Developer. Documentation should follow this division as well.
If the real focus currently is the End User, then the main documents required are:
- The Installation Guide (How do I get Fedora Linux onto my machine?) [available on fedora.redhat.com/docs/]
- The Desktop Users Guide (Now, what can I do with this default install?) [available from the fedoraproject.org wiki]
- System Maintenance (How can I keep it running well?) [not available?]
- Software Installation (How can I get more applications that will hose my system?) [available? from fedora.redhat.com/docs/ 'Managing Software with YUM']
- and Support (What do I do to solve my problem?) [not available?] [+2]
Are there documents for Maintenance and Support?
Anyway, I am going to get back to reading what is currently out there and try to be a constructive member of the group.
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1) I expect that our sponsor would prefer that the Office Worker, Developer and the Administrator end-users would be using RHEL rather than Fedora Linux, otherwise they would be eager for Fedora to provide a server spin, thereby negating the need for the Fedora Project to handle this documentation. However, if Fedora is truly to provide the base for RHEL, then this would include documentation for these users. This requires more direction from the appropriate people. This leaves us with the Home User.
2) In my view this document would start out with a brief list of those tools that would be helpful in trouble shooting problems, and how to use them. Then a list of external sites would be provided that would allow the user to research their individual issue on their own, i.e. fedoraforum.org, linuxforums.org, and linuxquestions.org.
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Aaron Bowman, Fedora Docs Wannabe
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