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On 11/26/2010 04:24 PM, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:
On 11/24/2010 11:28 AM, Dilip P Kumasi wrote:
Hello Everyone.
I am a newbie, and unfortunately, have been a newbie for a very long time now. The two biggest hurdles that are stopping me from making any progress are
- I am afraid I might break something
I wouldn't be afraid of breaking anything. Our source repositories have the ability to roll back any changes that were made.
- I can't figure out where I can fit in the docs team.
I haven't seen you in the Docs IRC room or at any of the meetings. Have you been interacting with other members? I wonder what your interests are and if those interests could translate into work in an existing guide or a new guide.
To solve the first problem, I want to ask if it is possible to start a "Hello World" doc: A doc meant exclusively for newbies, that never gets published for any release, where everyone is welcome to jump in and get comfortable with the process without worrying about breaking something.
I like this idea. Of course you could do this on your own by generating a guide, new or existing, on your own computer.
Can this be done?
If you would like to have a git repository to experiment with I'm sure that can be arranged. Otherwise you can create and build your own guides on your computer using Publican.
--Dilip
--Eric
Hi Dilip and welcome!
I also like the idea of people creating a sandbox doc so they can get comfortable with all the different tools. This could be done using a fedorapeople account I think, since that now has git support. [0]
As Eric said though, I think the best first step to really get involved would be to get onto the #fedora-docs IRC channel. If you don't already use IRC, this [1] should help!
[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/fedorapeople.org [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_IRC
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