On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Ruediger Landmann<r.landmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Absolutely! We noted the need for this in the lead up to Fedora 11 but > didn't have time to make it happen. We'll definitely have one for Fedora 12, > and we'd love to have you on board, Kishan. > Thank you. :) > The only "gotcha" I'll point out at this stage is that as far as is > possible, the new guide should be built from chunks of XML that already > exist in the Installation Guide (and perhaps the Live CD documentation). > Sharing "code" between the full Installation Guide and the "Quick" guide has > the following advantages: > > 1. The chunks taken from existing documentation will already be translated > into a large number of languages (the IG is already partially translated > into around 36 languages) > 2. We will only have to maintain the same step in one place (for example, if > we need to change something about keyboard selection in the IG, we can then > just copy that changed paragraph into the Quick guide) > 3. Any maintenace changes that we make (from step 2 above) will only need to > be translated once, either in the "Full" guide or the "Quick" guide, and we > can copy the translation from one book to the other and it will still work. > Yes, that would be very advantageous. > I'll pull something like this together in the next couple of days -- that > will allow anyone who's interested in helping to identify and work on any > extra text that we need to link everything together. > Thank you for doing that. That would be of much help. :) > What should we call this book? I'm thinking one of the following > permutations -- > > * Fedora 12 Quick Installation Guide > * Fedora 12 Installation Quick Start Guide > * Fedora 12 Quick Start Installation Guide > > Any preferences? > all the above names are fine. how would "Quick Start Fedora 12" be? Regards, Kishan Goyal. -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
