Hi Ryan!
On 03/15/2016 12:56 AM, Ryan Mason wrote:
Thanks Stephen!
I did a scrollback through #fedora-meeting and noticed that it was mentioned my e-mail bounced. I hope that is rectified now, changed some settings on my end.
Ha! Yeah, sorry, looks like randomuser missed your mail and I didn't but
got distracted and then forgot about it. Welcome aboard!
Some further info, you can find me on IRC as masetrax, and I'm located in mostly sunny Perth, Australia which puts me at +8 UTC
That's going to make collaboration a bit complicated as almost all of us
are in Europe or the Americas - but we'll manage. Go ahead and post any
questions or thoughts you have to the list if you can't get a hold of
anyone on IRC.
I wrote a bit about how I got to wanting to contribute, which is located here: https://masetraxblog.wordpress.com
Cool! Do you have any specific interest that you'd like to write about?
Some area like, I don't know, networking, software development, running
Fedora on ARM, LDAP...?
In any case, as you probably got from reading the meeting log, we're
(slooooowly) getting ready to start on Release Notes for Fedora 24. Beta
comes out in early May[1] and by that time we'd like to cover Changes[2]
that are implemented at that point. For the final release we'll polish
the Beta notes and hopefully expand them with things that changed, but
aren't covered in Changes. Writing this is a good place to start for new
contributors, since it doesn't require much knowledge about our tooling,
you only need to edit the Wiki and talk to people. And it's a set of
fairly small, isolated tasks, not like writing a whole chapter in a book.
Either I or randomuser will send out instructions for writing relnotes
to this list soon.
For the rest of our documentation - are you familiar with any of the
tools we currently use? Docs are written mostly in DocBook[3], built
using publican, and revision control (and publishing... yes, seriously
:) is handled using git. There's a pretty big thread[4] going on the
list about making the Docs Project more accessible to newcomers, which
would mean changing our workflow and adopting new tools - if you have an
hour to spare, read through and let us know what you think too.
Though, even if we do completely change our workflow, it's going to take
time, so right now learning git and DocBook is still pretty much
required in order to contribute to anything other than Release Notes. If
you haven't worked with any of them, it's fine - let us know and we'll
show you around.
Cheers,
Petr
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/Schedule
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/ChangeSet
[3] http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html
[4]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/ZQADWHALNRZHCJMOHLDELE5DM2H6Q77N/
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