On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Ruediger Landmann<r.landmann(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Absolutely! We noted the need for this in the lead up to Fedora 11
but
didn't have time to make it happen. We'll definitely have one for Fedora 12,
and we'd love to have you on board, Kishan.
Thank you. :)
The only "gotcha" I'll point out at this stage is that
as far as is
possible, the new guide should be built from chunks of XML that already
exist in the Installation Guide (and perhaps the Live CD documentation).
Sharing "code" between the full Installation Guide and the "Quick"
guide has
the following advantages:
1. The chunks taken from existing documentation will already be translated
into a large number of languages (the IG is already partially translated
into around 36 languages)
2. We will only have to maintain the same step in one place (for example, if
we need to change something about keyboard selection in the IG, we can then
just copy that changed paragraph into the Quick guide)
3. Any maintenace changes that we make (from step 2 above) will only need to
be translated once, either in the "Full" guide or the "Quick" guide,
and we
can copy the translation from one book to the other and it will still work.
Yes, that would be very advantageous.
I'll pull something like this together in the next couple of days
-- that
will allow anyone who's interested in helping to identify and work on any
extra text that we need to link everything together.
Thank you for doing that. That would be of much help. :)
What should we call this book? I'm thinking one of the following
permutations --
* Fedora 12 Quick Installation Guide
* Fedora 12 Installation Quick Start Guide
* Fedora 12 Quick Start Installation Guide
Any preferences?
all the above names are fine.
how would "Quick Start Fedora 12" be?
Regards,
Kishan Goyal.