At the recent Fedora Server Reboot meeting, an editorial group was set up to update our
PRD: m3xboy (Eduard Lucena), langdon (Langdon White), and pboy (Peter Boy, it's me).
We should start to put the work in motion. The next IRC meeting is planned for January. We
should then have a first proposal.
Looking back on the discussion, the first thing we have to decide upon is the tool to use.
One idea was hackMD (
https://hackmd.io/pricing#), a commercial online platform and
markdown editor, free for individuals and public groups.
Maybe I'm a bit old fashioned but I'd rather prefer a Fedora project resource if
it exists and is available, maybe something like laverna (
https://laverna.cc/)? A real OSS
markdown editor available as on premise installable online tool as well as local
installable (Linux, Max, Win) with online synchronization.
However, I would much rather use a tool with some professional writing functionality. For
our purpose, even LibreOffice would suffice. It provides a tracking of changes within text
lines, a comment and discussion function on selectable text passages directly in the
margin of the page, a merging of different editing statuses, and some more. Although the
final version would have to be downgraded to Markdown, thanks to pandoc it is quite
feasible. We would then have to upload and download the file. Would we have a place in the
Fedora infrastructure to do this?
In the next step, we should decide on a targeted table of contents, a heading and a very
short abstract of the intended "message" and its content, so that we have a
focus for the text.
In the discussion, the prevailing opinion was to essentially keep the structure.
The sections "Vision" and "Mission" have so far been mentioned as
needing discussion (I would argue for keeping them).
The section "Featured Server Roles" was described by Stephen Gallagher as
completely outdated. Who can contribute detailed information on this?
That's my ideas so far. @m3xboy and @langdon should we arrange an IRC meeting at short
notice? Or do we want to continue discussing here?