Hi again, the final release is coming in a few weeks and we still need help writing release notes. Instructions are below; if you have any questions, ping me on IRC or ask here on the list. Any contributions are welcome. Petr On 9/5/18 3:28 PM, Petr Bokoc wrote: > Hi docs! > > It's that time of the half-year again; we're about a month from the > current planned date for Fedora 29 final release, and it's time to start > banging out release notes. > > Anyone who wants to contribute should start here: > https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/release-notes/issues > > 1. Pick one or more issues that have "F29" in the title. > > 2. Open each issue you picked, and click the Take button on the right to > claim it. (If you claim an issue but later find out you don't have time > to write about it, remove yourself from the issue ASAP so others can see > it's free and take it!) > > 3. Find some information about the issue. A lot of them have plenty of > info in them already; if not, find out who's responsible for the change, > and talk to them on IRC or via mail. Of course it's always better if you > try to do research before you ask questions. > > 4. Write a release note about the issue. If you're not sure how exactly > a release note looks, check out some of the previous releases for > inspiration. We don't want any long, overly technical texts, the release > notes are meant to highlight changes, not tell people how to use something. > > 5. Now the workflow diverges based on your permissions and technical skills: > > 5a. If you know how to use git and asciidoc, we'd appreciate if you > wrote up the release note and sent a pull request against the main repo, > branch "f29". Note that we have a different directory structure for this > release; your contributions should go into one of the files in > "modules/release-notes/pages/". Use the "build.sh" and "preview.sh" > scripts in the repository root to preview your changes locally; see the > repository README for specific instructions. If you can't see the > section where you added your contributions at all, make sure it's > included in "modules/release-notes/nav.adoc". > > 5b. If the above sounds like gibberish to you, it's fine: just add a > comment with your text into the issue, and ping me on IRC or through > e-mail; I'll mark it up for you and make sure your contribution appears > in the final document. > > If anyone has any questions, go ahead and ask. The current schedule > shows the preferred final release target at October 23, giving us about > a month and a half. Don't count on the release date slipping :). > > Happy writing! > _______________________________________________ docs mailing list -- docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to docs-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
