Re: My Introduction

[David Ashley <w.david.ashley@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would love to work on the virtualization guides. It is one of my strong points and it holds a high interest for me as I use it every day. I am especially interested in automating the use of VMs using virsh (or a libvirt library for Python, etc). I have such a system running now and I use it to perform software and docs builds on a nightly basis by running each VM using an on-demand system. I think it might be something useful that could be added to the guides.

My Git experience is also weak (I have only used CVS and Subversion and my CVS experience is years old). But I would only need a reason to get up to speed on Git as it looks really interesting.

So just point me in the right direction to get me started.

David Ashley

On 06/01/2015 03:46 PM, Sandra McCann wrote:

Welcome David!

I've only been around a few months myself, but reading your background, what popped into my head is maybe you can help revive some of the virtualization guides.

We brought back the virtualization getting started guide for F22, but there are two others, the virtualization deployment guide and virtualization security guide.

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/Virtualization_Deployment_and_Administration_Guide/index.html

and 

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Virtualization_Security_Guide/

I've been thinking of trying to dig into the deployment guide next, but there's plenty of room for more than one person poking away at it!

Do you have any git experience?  For me, that is/was/still is my stumbling block, but with help from folks here, I managed to not break anything (yet :-)

And if you haven't found this page yet - it has some handy pointers:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project?rd=DocsProject

Again, welcome!

Sandra

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:18 PM, David Ashley <w.david.ashley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello everyone -

My name is David Ashley and I want to contribute to the Fedora Docs Project.

I have been creating and maintaining documentation in DocBook for over 10 years and I have been using Publican to publish those works for about five years. I have a small amount of experience with MediaWiki but that was a few years ago. A lot of the documentation I have been a part of is available online and I am willing to share the URLs when asked.

I also have the following skills:

- average C/C++ programmer
- average Python programmer
- average HTML and CSS coder (web site maintainer and Apache admin)
- KVM/QEMU admin for 50 VMs on a single server
- maintaining a production system for nightly builds of both docs and program RPMs/DEBs on multiple operating systems
- ex-Project Lead for the ooRexx Project (www.oorexx.org)

I have also been using Fedora almost continuously since the first release. I also have experience with Red Hat, Suse, CentOS, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and a few other distributions.

Obviously I am looking for a sponsor and something to start work on. I am flexible and have a fair amount of time to contribute. Please let me know what I need to do to get started.

Thanks,
David Ashley (Fedora user wdashley)
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