On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 15:37 -0500, Patrick W. Barnes wrote:
On Thursday 04 May 2006 12:02, Max Spevack
<mspevack(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I'm curious to know -- what's it gonna take for us to finish the migration
> away from
fedora.redhat.com.
>
> + Figure out if there's any content on there that *isn't* on
>
fedoraproject.org and needs to be.
>
> + If so, move it off.
>
> + point
fedora.redhat.com/* at
www.redhat.com/fedora/
>
> I know there was some talk on this in the past -- I'm curious to know if
> we can finish off killing the beast.
>
One of the reasons we still have
fedora.redhat.com is to provide a small set
of static documents that could easily be translated and/or redistributed. We
need to decide what content we need to provide in such a static manner and
get it into the new Plone site. This will help us work towards removing
fedora.redhat.com and will help us prepare to move the Plone site live.
http://fpserv.fedoraproject.org/
In order to do this properly, we need a workflow in Plone that supports
"promotion." We want people to be able to draft documents on the CMS
(like they currently do on the Wiki) in a dynamic way that supports
team-based community collaboration, and allows approved documents to be
promoted to official status, built into tarballs/HTML/PDF using
appropriate tools, etc.
In a perfect world, we would have a way to accomplish this as we do in
CVS (warning, crappy ASCII art rendering follows):
.------------------. .-----------------.
| Easy CMS markup |______\ | Editor tags to |
| draft by authors | / | DocBook or DITA |
'------------------' '-----------------'
| (PROMOTION 1)
V |
.------------------. |
| Authors continue | /_______________|
| work using editor| \
| aware of DB/DITA |
| which locks tags |______\ .---------------------.
'------------------' / | Editor snapshots a |
| ^ | publication version |
| |(ad inf.) '---------------------'
--- (PROMOTION 2)
|
V
.---------------------.
| Publisher tags for |
| HTML/PDF/RPM/et al. |
'---------------------'
I'm sure this is *possible*, but how to do it with volunteer manpower?
Does this beg the question of how much interaction documenters could
ultimately have with developers using the CMS?
--
Paul W. Frields, RHCE
http://paul.frields.org/
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