Hello everyone,
After reading some of the conversation about publishing for Fedora I
wanted to just make my observations known.
I am thankful and grateful to Pete, and the rest of the Fedora Docs team
for teaching me how to contribute.
As I struggle to build my knowledge of Linux, and trying to contribute
and give back to the Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora world , I learned a lot.
However I did not realize how much of a time commitment in writing in
doc book, fixing my doc book code, test building in publican, and then
re-doing my docbook code because it does not work right on the docs site.
I am not good at it yet, but, the time overhead just for a small chunk
of content is really substantial. When I described the process of how
doc writers work in Fedora, several people in my local linux users group
lost interest.
I do not know what the solution is, but making docs contribution less of
a process would substantially help grow contributors. It would also
increase my satisfaction of useable content VS labor (but this will
hopefully improve as I get better in writing in docbook).
Where I work, and the people I encounter (users and other IT Pro's)
documentation is expected to be done via wiki. Wiki's have their
problems, but it gets people putting info somewhere, and that's 95% of
the battle for us.
Respectfully,
-Glen
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