Docs Project contributor expectations

Become a docs project contributor

Before contributing to the Docs Project ask yourself if you want to join the docs project. The bare minimum you will need is a Fedora Access System account (FAS) Fedora Contributor License Agreement (CLA). Once you have a FAS account, you will be granted a fedoraproject.org email alias.

On Licensing / Copyrights

This wiki is under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License (see [FedoraProject:Copyrights FedoraProject:Copyrights] for details).

Document formatting

The format depends on the type of document the contributor is writing.

• The website is in HTML.
• The guides are developed in XML and converted to HTML and .pdf
• Fedora uses Mediawiki and uses Mediawiki syntax for the wiki pages.

Suggested Tools

• Gobby is a great real-time documentation collaboration service.
• Publican is a graphical user interface for developing xml files and converting them into other formats.
• Works not directly saved into the wiki should be saved in git via Fedora Hosted.
• You may use your fedoraproject.org email alias which is granted to you upon successful FAS/CLA sign-up.

Pointers for contributors looking for documents to write

• Pick something from the new contributors task list.
• Check out the guides table and find a documentation buddy.
• The wiki itself needs to be gardened. Check out the pages that need love index.
• Go bug hunting.
• Have some other crazy idea? Great! Let's discuss it on the Docs mailing list.