Re: new member introduction
by Christopher Antila
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Hi Jonquil:
Welcome to the Docs Project! There are lots of things to do, especially for an
experienced writer/editor.
It seems like the usual "place to start" is either by proofreading existing
documents or by helping to write the Release Notes. I'm pretty sure the
Release Notes for Fedora 16 are already (mostly?) finished, so that leaves you
with proofreading. Until the Fedora 17 cycle.
The place to go for this is the Draft Documentation part of the website, which
is what will turn into the Fedora 16 versions of the Guides. It looks to me
like the User Guide is available, and that's probably a place where you can
make a big impact (see below for link).
Draft Fedora 16 User Guide:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-
US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/16.0/html/User_Guide/index.html
The Deployment Guide is my personal favourite from a useful-content-to-me
perspective, but it's updated almost daily by the author, so I don't know if
it's at a stage where you want to be proof-reading yet.
If you're looking for something in desperate need of proof-reading but with a
smaller target audience, you might start with the Musicians' Guide. Most of it
is literally a first draft. I could do a much better job if I had the time, but
I'm a graduate student, so I just don't.
Of course you can choose to do anything you want, like start your own Guide,
or do "wiki-farming" (aka updating the Fedora Project wiki... also sorely
needed!)
Oh... last thing is where to submit contributions. At first, I'd rewrite a
chapter/section/sentence/whatever, then submit it as a bug, to the Bugzilla
component corresponding to the document. Eventually you can move into
modifying the documents directly, but it's a lot to learn all at once.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com
Any questions, just ask, or join us on IRC (freenode) #fedora-docs
Christopher.
On 16 October 2011 08:00:10 docs-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:02:31 -0400
> From: Jonquil McDaniel <jonquil(a)love.com>
> Subject: new member introduction
> To: docs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Message-ID: <1318701751.12582.0.camel@jonquil>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Hello all!
>
> My name is Jonquil McDaniel and I'm in the EST time zone. My country of
> residence is the United States. I have a lot of writing experience under
> my belt and I currently am editor of a local online magazine. I'm
> joining this group because I want to contribute to Fedora in some way
> and seeing as I'm not a programmer I thought I might try my hand at
> documentation since I've had a class on technical writing. I'm not
> really sure yet of what specifically I want to do but I do know I want
> to write, LOL. I can contribute at least 5 hours a week to the project.
>
> * Time Zone / Country
> * Basic skills and experiences
> * Why you're joining
> * What you're looking to do (be specific)
> * How much time you can contribute (usually hours per week)
>
>
>
12 years, 6 months
new member introduction
by Jonquil McDaniel
Hello all!
My name is Jonquil McDaniel and I'm in the EST time zone. My country of
residence is the United States. I have a lot of writing experience under
my belt and I currently am editor of a local online magazine. I'm
joining this group because I want to contribute to Fedora in some way
and seeing as I'm not a programmer I thought I might try my hand at
documentation since I've had a class on technical writing. I'm not
really sure yet of what specifically I want to do but I do know I want
to write, LOL. I can contribute at least 5 hours a week to the project.
* Time Zone / Country
* Basic skills and experiences
* Why you're joining
* What you're looking to do (be specific)
* How much time you can contribute (usually hours per week)
12 years, 6 months
Adding CSI Documentation to docs.fp.o
by Eric Christensen
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Does anyone have a problem with me adding the Infrastructure's CSI (Community Services Infrastructure) guides to docs.fp.o? These guides are being developed to help all Linux distros with their projects. There are currently four guides:
- - Free Software Policy
- - Host Lifecycle Policy
- - Security Policy
- - Web Services
I'd like to add a CSI section to the current listing of guides on docs.fp.o and publish the guides there.
- -- Eric
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Eric H Christensen eric(a)christensenplace.us
"Sparks" sparks(a)fedoraproject.org
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12 years, 6 months
FW: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30
by Eric Christensen
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:44:40 -0600
From: Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com>
To: announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, devel-announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30
X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.6; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30
Summary:
All existing users of the Fedora Account System (FAS) at
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts are required to change their
password and upload a NEW ssh public key before 2011-11-30.
Failure to do so may result in your account being marked inactive.
Passwords changed and NEW ssh public keys uploaded after 2011-10-10
will meet this requirement.
Backgound and reasoning:
This change event has NOT been triggered by any specific compromise or
vulnerability in Fedora Infrastructure. Rather, we believe, due to the
large number of high profile sites with security breaches in recent
months, that this is a great time for all Fedora contributors and users
to review their security settings and move to "best practices" on their
machines. Additionally, we are putting in place new rules for passwords
to make them harder to guess.
New Password Rules:
* Nine or more characters with lower and upper case letters, digits and
punctuation marks.
* Ten or more characters with lower and upper case letters and digits.
* Twelve or more characters with lower case letters and digits
* Twenty or more characters with all lower case letters.
* No maximum length.
Some Do's and Don'ts:
* NEVER store your ssh private key on a shared or public system.
* ALWAYS use a strong passphrase on your ssh key.
* If you must store passwords, use an application specifically for this
purpose like revelation, gnome-keyring, seahorse, or keepassx.
* Regularly apply your operating system's security related updates.
* Only use ssh agent forwarding when needed ( .ssh/config:
"ForwardAgent no")
* DO verify ssh host keys via dnssec protected dns. ( .ssh/config:
"VerifyHostKeyDNS yes")
* DO consider a seperate ssh key for Fedora Infrastructure.
* Work with and use security features like SELinux and iptables.
* Review the Community Standard Infrastructure security document (link
below)
Q&A:
Q: My password and ssh private key are fine and secure!
Can't I just skip this change?
No. We believe the new guidelines above provide an added measure of
security compared to the previous requirements. We want all users of
our infrastructure to follow the new guidelines to improve one aspect
of security across the systems they share. Awareness is also an
aspect of good security. By requiring these changes, we also hope to
maintain and improve awareness of the process for changing passwords
and keys.
Q: Can I just change my password and re-upload my same ssh public key?
Or upload a bogus ssh public key and then re-upload my old one?
A: No. We've installed safeguards to ensure that your new ssh public
key is different from your old one. Additionally, some of our
contributors may have had accounts on compromised high profile Linux
sites recently, and we want to make sure no ssh private keys or
passwords used in Fedora Infrastructure were obtained via those
incidents.
Q: This is a hassle. How often is this going to happen?
A: The last mass password change in Fedora was more than 3 years ago.
Absent a triggering event, these mass changes will be infrequent.
Q: The new password length requirements/rules are too strict.
How will I remember passwords that are that long?
A: You can employ a password storage application (see above), or
use a method like diceware (see below), or construct a memorable
sentence or phrase.
Q: How do I generate a new ssh key? How do I use it for just Fedora
hosts?
A: See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cryptography and use a
~/.ssh/config file to match fedoraproject.org hosts for that key.
Q: I never uploaded a ssh key to the Fedora Account System, nor am I
in a group that needs one, do I still have to upload a new one?
A: No. If you don't have a ssh public key uploaded or desire to do so,
you can just change your password.
More reading:
http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/csi/security-policy/en-US/html-si...
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_mass_password_update
http://xkcd.com/936/
http://www.iusmentis.com/security/passphrasefaq/
http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cryptography
- --
announce mailing list
announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce
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12 years, 6 months
New Contributor - Abdel Martinez
by Abdel Gadiel Martínez Lassonde
Hello! My name is Abdel Martínez. I'm from Panama and I would like to
participate in this group. I do know English and Spanish.
I expect to do a great job here and make new friends.
Good-bye!
--
*Abdel G. Martínez L.
**Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 5 and 6*
*Fedora Ambassador & Campus Ambassador*
*Fedora Developer & Packager*
*Mobile:
**6125-1563
**Email:
*
*abdel.g.martinez.l(a)gmail.com* <abdel.g.martinez.l(a)gmail.com>
12 years, 6 months
Re: [Don't translate them!] Fedora Release Notes / Legal
by Eric Christensen
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On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 09:51:55PM +0200, Roman Spirgi wrote:
> We've just had the question in the German trans mailing list if that
> would imply not translating the release notes at all.
>
> If I get it right, it's just about strings which contains legal
> statements, right?! Could someone highlight the strings in question?
>
> Cheers, Roman
>
> Am Sonntag, den 02.10.2011, 16:04 +0200 schrieb dominique chepioq:
> > es, please do not translate the legal statements. I'm not really sure
> > how they would have gotten into the POTs as they should only be a part
> > of the brand and not the document.
Do not translate Legal.xml. Everything else should be okay.
- --Eric
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12 years, 6 months
Introductory Email
by Luis Enrique Bazán De León
Hello everybody, my name is Luis, IRC: LoKoMurdoK, FAS: lbazan, I thank you
for letting me belong to docs-writers team. I can contribute translation of
documents and reviews (Spanish)
I am very happy that allow me to be part of the group
--
Luis Enrique Bazán De León
12 years, 6 months
Meeting Minutes, October 10, 2011
by John J. McDonough
Meeting ended Mon Oct 10 13:59:27 2011 UTC.
Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-10-10/fedora-meeting...
Minutes (text):
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-10-10/fedora-meeting...
Log:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-10-10/fedora-meeting...
============================
#fedora-meeting: Fedora docs
============================
Meeting started by jjmcd at 13:03:47 UTC. The full logs are available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-10-10/fedora-meeting...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Roll Call (jjmcd, 13:03:56)
* action items (jjmcd, 13:08:12)
* ACTION: Sparks to send a message to the Docs list discussing the QA
discussion at OLF (jjmcd, 13:15:04)
* ACTION: Sparks to work on the Docs QA wiki page to start with goals,
then process, then tools (jjmcd, 13:15:19)
* ACTION: jjmcd Prepare GA Release Notes (jjmcd, 13:15:35)
* ACTION: zoglesby to send message to list about a qa day for docs
validation (jjmcd, 13:15:46)
* ACTION: jjmcd to correct Overview section (jjmcd, 13:16:37)
* ACTION: pkovar to look into language code mapping (jjmcd, 13:17:35)
* Will need lots of folks to quickly karma release notes tomorrow
(jjmcd, 13:19:52)
* ACTION: jjmcd to post link to list on F16 release note RPM on Bodhi
(jjmcd, 13:21:43)
* F16 Schedule (jjmcd, 13:27:08)
* POT files for the Deployment guide, user guide andPOT files for the
Deployment guide, user guide and Resource management guide are up to
date Resource management guide are (jjmcd, 13:30:56)
* Guide Status (jjmcd, 13:33:54)
* ACTION: jjmcd to track down status of Installation Guide (jjmcd,
13:36:58)
* Outstanding BZ Tickets (jjmcd, 13:42:35)
* Still many issues with tx. Suggest an activity day, perhaps online,
to get them corrected (jjmcd, 13:48:49)
* LINK:
http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/314937_2057122233122_1396605...
(jjmcd, 13:54:10)
* Open Floor Discussion (jjmcd, 13:55:26)
Meeting ended at 13:59:27 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* Sparks to send a message to the Docs list discussing the QA discussion
at OLF
* Sparks to work on the Docs QA wiki page to start with goals, then
process, then tools
* jjmcd Prepare GA Release Notes
* zoglesby to send message to list about a qa day for docs validation
* jjmcd to correct Overview section
* pkovar to look into language code mapping
* jjmcd to post link to list on F16 release note RPM on Bodhi
* jjmcd to track down status of Installation Guide
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* jjmcd
* jjmcd Prepare GA Release Notes
* jjmcd to correct Overview section
* jjmcd to post link to list on F16 release note RPM on Bodhi
* jjmcd to track down status of Installation Guide
* pkovar
* pkovar to look into language code mapping
* **UNASSIGNED**
* Sparks to send a message to the Docs list discussing the QA
discussion at OLF
* Sparks to work on the Docs QA wiki page to start with goals, then
process, then tools
* zoglesby to send message to list about a qa day for docs validation
People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
* jjmcd (101)
* pkovar (45)
* fnadge (7)
* jhradilek (4)
* zodbot (3)
12 years, 6 months
Stepping back from the Docs Project
by Nathan Thomas
Hi all,
Work has really been piling up this academic year, and I’m struggling to keep on top of everything. Unfortunately I’m going to have to take a step back from the Docs Project, which means I can no longer maintain the Live Image Guide. Sorry about the bad timing! As far as I’m aware everything is ready to go for F16, it’s just a matter of building and publishing it. I thought it would be better to let you know now rather than in a month when GA arrives and I realise I don’t have time to get the guide out.
To make things worse, I’ve been hit by a couple of killer bugs in F15 and F16 beta, which means I don’t even have a working Fedora install at the moment
Good luck with Verne, and if there are any questions about the Live Image Guide or anything else I’d be happy to try to answer them!
Best wishes,
Nathan
12 years, 6 months