Docs Project meetings
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The Fedora Documentation Project holds weekly IRC meetings. All members of the Fedora Project are welcome to participate.
Information about past meetings can be found on the Category:Docs Project meetings and Category:Docs Project meeting logs pages.
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Meeting Details
The Docs Project meets on freenode , #fedora-meeting. All members of the community are welcome to attend and participate in our meetings.
- Day: Thursday (or Wednesday if your timezone is earlier than UTC)
- Time: 0001 Hrs UTC (refer to World clock for 05 March 2009)
- Location: #fedora-meeting on freenode
For more information and to discuss any of the agenda items, be sure to click on the links to read the threads on the fedora-docs-list.
A meeting reminder should be sent at the beginning of the meeting day.
Agenda for Next Meeting
This is the agenda for the next meeting for Docs Project. Please write down your topic suggestions so that we have an idea on what will be discussed in the meeting. Pointers to emails which expand on the idea are always welcome!
Thursday July 2, 2009 (Wed US Time)
- F12 Calendar <-- poelcat
- Status on CC license discussion. <--quaid
- Ian has news from CC on the licensing change marketing whatnottery
- Shared open-source style guide
- Bugzilla Component Changes [1]
- Outstanding BZ Tickets
- DocsProject wiki pages changes
- With the new definition of alpha and beta, do we need to treat release notes differently?
- Guide needs?
- New Guides
- RPM Guide
- Go over task table
- All other business
Task table
This table may be transcluded in other locations, but originates at Docs_Project_admin_tasks_for_experienced_contributors#Task_table.
| Task | Assignee | Due date | Next milestone | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Update helping-hand docs | quaid, stickster, jsmith | xy Jan | xy Jan | Review, organize, rewrite, simplify, and categorize Docs team helper docs -- waiting on page renaming and categorization |
| Toolchain next steps | quaid, stickster, jsmith | Ongoing | ??? | Sorting out what fedora-doc-utils does, where to use Publican, etc. -- Principals to discuss status, progress, direction on IRC. |
| Publican migration | ALL | ??? | ??? | Figure out steps for a migration of each guide; track that in each guide's Trac. Installation Guide migration branch in git; task in progress, possible work at FedoraEvents/FAD/FAD_SCaLE. |
| Team per document | ALL | Ongoing | 03 Feb. | Lead writers identified, still working on solid teams. |
| CMS for docs.fp.org | ke4qqq | 28 Feb | 06 Feb | Zikula chosen, working on test instances and project plan with Zikula team |
| Student mentoring | quaid, ke4qqq | Ongoing | Ongoing | Focus on wiki and entry tasks; regular check-ins; keep scope and choices narrow where there is lots of room to succeed and learn; FLOSS Proj Mgmt session at FUDCon? |
| Update task lists | quaid, ke4qqq | Ongoing | 03 Dec | ke4qqq helping with new contributor tasks, quaid working on all lists; IG and relnotes moved to hosted Trac. |
| Docs to fedorahosted.org | quaid, stickster | 15 Dec. | 07 Dec. | 75% complete? |
| Update Fedora Documentation components in BZ | Sparks | 11 Jun | 10 Jun | Just beginning. |
Migrating away from Docs CVS and into Fedora Hosted
- Create a bug in bugzilla for each guide currently in Docs CVS that hasn't been migrated
- Make new project for each guide (follow Release Notes model)
- Follow the guide for porting docs to Publican
- Close bug
Guides
| Guide Name | F | Guide Lead | Wiki | DocBook | Translated | RPM | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Installation Guide | F11 | ke4qqq, rudi | N/A | Yes | In Progress | We haven't traditionally done an RPM for the IG | Yes |
| Release Notes | F11 | jjmcd, ryanlerch | Yes | Yes (1) | In Progress (2) | Yes | Yes but (3) |
| Security Guide | F11 | mhideo, sparks, sradvan | Archived | Yes | In Progress (28Apr) | In Progress (April) | Yes |
| SELinux User Guide | F11 | sradvan | No | Yes | In Progress | No | Yes |
| SELinux Managing Confined Services Guide | F11 | sradvan | No | In Progress | No | No | Haven't pushed html to anywhere public really |
| User Guide | F11 | danielsmw, kirk202 | Yes | Yes | In Progress | No | Yes |
(1) RC RNs published, Lots of 0-day updates proposed.
(2) RC RNs are published. Translations continue to roll in.
(3) The release notes RPM includes six documents. The release notes proper are available in HTML and are up to date on docs.fp.o. The other docs are not all provided in HTML, and only some are provided on docs.fp.o. Those that are have not been updated yet. Missing updates are largely copyright dates.


