On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 21:10 +0200, Peter Boy wrote:
Am Samstag, den 20.08.2005, 14:34 +0100 schrieb Stuart Ellis:
> On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 12:45 +0200, Peter Boy wrote:
>
> > - I'm missing a list, something like a "Table Of Content", about
the
> > topics, which should make up "Fedora Core Documentation" when it
is
> > ready. If such a list were available I could check weather one of my
> > texts may fit
>
> One of the main ideas of the Fedora Project is that it's community
> driven, i.e. it provides a framework to enable people to do the things
> that they themselves consider important. The Docs Project provides
> various kinds of support and infrastructure for publishing and
> maintaining documentation, but they are really processes and don't
> impose restrictions on content.
Fully agreed. But :-)
In order to achieve a comprehensive and well structured "Fedora
Documentation" I suppose some over all planning is helpful. And despite
being community driven somebody has to make the initial step. I think
the FDSCo is the only one who can this do.
Such a framework being available may inspire one of the other lurkers
here to contribute a chapter.
(By the way would be interesting why a lot of people are just lurking.
May be they have no time left, may be they get no idea what to
contribute under the restriction of their time table).
I guess that you are envisaging a single large document. We've tended to
aim for smaller and focused documents, as they get rapidly get harder
for a volunteer project to produce and maintain to a consistent standard
as they increase in scale.
Having said that, one of the ideas currently on the
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/DocIdeas is for a Fedora
Desktop Guide, which breaks up into chapters. This could probably be
done with 2-4 people.
> We have a "New Writers" page which we push as much as
we can:
>
>
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/NewWriters
>
> If there a way that we can make this easier to find, or clearer, then
> please let me know.
OK, this is highly speculative and to some extend a matter of personal
taste. But perhaps there is too much information about too many
different topics on the initial page
(
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/ ).
Thanks - this was very helpful. The main page and the New Writers page
have now been restructured.
--
Stuart Ellis
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