On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Susan Lauber <laubersm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:03 PM, David Nalley > <david.nalley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> So Rudi has been doing a ton of work on the Install Guide and we were >> talking tonight about the status of PPC. > > Very cool stuff! Thanks Rudi. > >> >> Currently we have a note in the IG where PPC installation differs. >> This is a bit cumbersome and for a few other reasons wanted to seek >> the 'Wisdom of the List' in how this should be handled. >> >> Our options are: >> 1. Continue with the exceptions process >> 2. Adopt the RHEL solution - which is to have a separate section in >> the same document that transcludes a lot of the identical content.) >> 3. Drop PPC from the Install Guide >> 3a: Drop PPC from the Install Guide and bring it back in F12 if there >> is an uprising calling for our heads. >> 3b. Drop PPC from the Install Guide and Create a PPC IG >> 3c. Drop PPC from the IG and let a PPC-SIG pick it up >> >> So discussing it amongst ourselves we both seem to like the 3a >> solution (Drop content and revert if there is an uprising). Our >> justification is: >> 1. PPC on pre-intel Macs is really aging hardware, so we are likely >> talking about when to drop rather than if. >> 2. PPC hardware is hard to come by. Currently no one working on the IG >> has PPC hardware in their possession, though Rudi says he can lay his >> hands on a machine if need be. >> 3. Removing the exception notes makes the document a cleaner read >> 4. It's less work. > > Those sound like fair reasons to drop it from the formal and translated IG. > I can support 3a. > > I have a question about option 3c though - do you mean as a guide in > XML with requirements of translation and meeting release cycles? Or > do you mean in any format they so desire? If the later, I think we > can help a little rather than just drop the content. I don't care how they do it, not my place to tell those who want to do the work how they should do it. > How hard is it to put the current (F10) version into a HOWTO on the wiki? So to my knowledge the install guide hasn't lived on the wiki ever. This means we'd need to do a dump from XML (or rendered format) to wiki. While I am not inherently opposed to this, I'd want to know that a SIG was going to pick it up first before we go to those lengths. Keep in mind the F10 IG is around 70 printed pages (from a single html page). F11 IG that I just printed is currently 116 pages. So we are talking about a ton of additional content in the wiki if we spawn a separate document. If they are going to do a short howto it's probably easier to just do so by creating anew. > This way it is EASY for anyone (SIG or user) to copy and update to F11 > if they so choose. I think it much more likely to get done at all if > the structure is already there and done correctly if the users do it > themselves. Don't forget to tell the SIG it exists ;) > I'll work on getting them up to speed shortly. -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
