On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:45:55AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> What type of reviewer are you looking for.
An existing Fedora packager to do a technical review the packaging according
to our packaging guidelines, which is a requirement for the packages to get
imported into Fedora.
> I will explain. I am a research analyst with a technology company (my
> areas of expertise are in technology (hardware and software generalist,
> (was a hardware designer for 10 years, and software developer/ programmer
> for about 20 yrs) and currently a specialist in Business Applications. I
> do a substantial amount of technical writing in many areas. I have used
> samba, but not recently, and I have been a linux biggot since 2004. I can
> write good English, and can make complex ideas easily understandable.
Unfortunately, those are not quite the qualifications needed for the
reviewing part, but documentation writing is also a useful skill.
What you could do for the OpenChange feature in Fedora
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OpenChange is write the "beats"
(text snippets) for the release notes (the one currently on the feature
page is quite minimalist, it's a single sentence). Samba4 could probably
also use such a feature page, you could write one (according to the same
template), then talk to the actual owner(s) of the feature (whoever will
actually package Samba4) about getting it run through the official feature
process.
And/or you could get in contact with Samba upstream and/or the Fedora
documentation team to write some documentation.
The Fedora Documentation team is actively soliciting for people to
write these kinds of "beats," which are single-subject pages for our
release notes and other use. Leslie, if you're interested you could
join the fedora-docs-list and introduce yourself. Work on these beats
is starting to resume for the next release, Fedora 11 (Leonidas), and
I'm sure everyone would be thrilled to meet you and help you learn how
to contribute there.
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