Paul Frields wrote:
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 1:05 AM, Christopher Curran <ccurran@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We have so many great projects on fedorahosted.org, many of which maintain
their own documents.
My question is why don't we have links to these projects? We should have a
connection between them and the documentation on fedora.org
And yes I am sticking my hand up, I just don't know how we would go about it
or our reasons for not doing it at the moment.
The other possible option is to talk to the package maintainers and host the
documentation on fedora.org and have them link to us !
I'm assuming you mean http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ and not that
other site (which has no connection to the Fedora Project). :-)
Yes, that's the one.
I think that:
1. A link to fedorahosted.org makes sense to help people visiting
docs.fedoraproject.org -- or any *.fedoraproject.org, for that matter
-- find other projects they care about. Maybe this is a question for
the websites team: should the Hosted area be linked as part of the
quick links on our templates site-wide? (Also, this indicates that
our docs site needs to have the same template as the rest of fp.o, but
I believe someone's already working on that, yes?)
Symmetric links would be nice. We could link to their docs, they could
link to ours.
2. Hosting all that documentation on docs.fedoraproject.org actually
decreases the likelihood it will be maintained -- the idea should be
to get docs people involved with helping the upstream projects, rather
than trying to swallow their documents into our own site. (It seems to
me that we've tried going down the latter road before, and shown that
we don't have the resources for that kind of maintenance.)
Taking everything on is a bad idea. I think participating in upstream
projects is more constructive (and on a distro level fedora is the
upstream project). We should link to upstream documents though, there
are some good documents in fedorahosted and on individual project sites.
Becoming a hub for information is certainly a way to get more attention
and subsequent participation.
So what do you think Paul and others?
Paul
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