On Thu, 2019-04-18 at 12:06 +0200, Brian (bex) Exelbierd wrote:
> I am working on the Fedora Docs submission to GSoD right now with
> Sumantro. Looks like we need to coordinate to not get 52 Fedora
> submissions.
>
> Shaun, are you submitting in Fedora's name?
Nope. I wouldn't do that without a formal go-ahead from someone like
you or Petr.
Alright, I'm giving you one :) please edit your application and use
"Fedora Project" as the project name and "http://fedoraproject.org/"
as
the project link.
> Petr - pinging you now.
>
> regards,
>
> bex
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 11:54 AM Petr Bokoc <pbokoc(a)redhat.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm doing this way late late - my bad, I've had a pretty terrible
>> April
>> so far with a string of events that made me mostly unavailable. In
>> retrospect I should have probably said something sooner :/. We have
>> till
>> Tuesday 20:00 UTC, and I think we might still be able to pull
>> something off.
>>
>> Shaun, thank you for offering to be a mentor.
>>
>> I also contacted the installer team yesterday, asking if anyone
>> would
>> like to be a "technical" mentor for the install guide rewrite
>> proposal.
>>
>> Other than mentors, we'll need two "Organization administrators",
>> people
>> who would manage the participation of Fedora in GSoD. Do we have
>> anyone?
>> Brian, do you think you could do that? And do we know anyone else
>> who
>> might be able to/want to step up? I originally thought I'd take one
>> of
>> the spots, but I think I'd be of more use as a mentor, and I don't
>> think
>> one person can be both.
>>
>> By the way, I can't find this anywhere in the docs: can a single
>> mentor
>> offer to mentor multiple projects?
>>
>> Regarding projects, if we can have the same person (i.e. me) offer
>> to
>> mentor multiple projects, then I'd propose the following:
>>
>> * Refactor or enhance the Fedora Installation Guide by creating
>> separately published documents for each Fedora variant
>> (Workstation/Server/Cloud), taking advantage of Antora
>>
>> * Update and enhance current contributor documentation, including
>> developing ASCIIDoc markup guidelines and providing a set of
>> ASCIIDoc
>> snippets for common text editors (Atom, Vim, Emacs, Gedit)
>>
>> * Create a documentation set aimed at users completely new to Linux
>> and
>> Fedora in particular, focusing on describing alternatives to
>> software
>> commonly used on other operating systems (such as web browsers,
>> productivity suites, video/music players, image/video editing
>> software…), and concepts such as package management and updates
>>
>> Personally I could mentor any of those, or even offer to mentor all
>> of
>> them if that's allowed.
>>
>> If we manage to agree on something, I can work on making a docs
>> page for
>> GSoD over the weekend, I got the flu so I'm not going anywhere
>> anyway.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Petr
>>
>>
>> On 4/4/19 6:26 PM, Brian (bex) Exelbierd wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 5:48 PM Shaun McCance <shaunm(a)gnome.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I'd like to re-open the conversation about Season of Docs.
>>>> Here's the
>>>> previous thread, for reference:
>>> We forgot to write on that thread, but it was in irc (terrible
>>> comms
>>> hygiene - sorry) that Fedora is working on the application for
>>> Season
>>> of Docs.
>>>
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/docs@lists.fedoraproject.or...
>>>> I'm willing to invest some time into coordinating Fedora's
>>>> involvement,
>>>> whether that's as an actual admin, or just helping the admins
>>>> here and
>>>> there. Here are a few ideas for possible projects:
>>>>
>>>> * Quick start guides for the different spins
>>>>
>>>> * Contributor guide
>>>>
>>>> * Security guide
>>>>
>>>> * Guides geared toward specific types of server deployments,
>>>> such as
>>>> storage, virtualization, container platform, etc
>>>>
>>>> * Guide geared toward developers using Fedora as their
>>>> development
>>>> platform, as a developer workstation, as a testing/CI platform,
>>>> and as
>>>> a deployment platform
>>>>
>>>> Each individual project must have two mentors, which is
>>>> different from
>>>> how GSoC has run. (Maybe they'll change GSoC too.) But, mentors
>>>> don't
>>>> always need to be people who hang out on this list. We should
>>>> look for
>>>> people working on those areas to help mentor. Find a developer
>>>> working
>>>> on Fedora security to help mentor a security guide, for
>>>> example.
>>> It'd be great to see people step up the plate on these ideas. It
>>> seems like with Shaun, we need just one more person to get at
>>> least
>>> one idea on the table.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> bex
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