We’ve been working with git as a distributed version control system (DVCS) for Fedora Documentation this release. All of these documents (Installation Guide, Release Note, and various README files) are authored in DocBook XML, so they work great within a VCS.
Sure, it’s cool to work entirely offline, do granular commits, and merge perfectly with [...]
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
With people writing about running for the Fedora Project Board, I want to take the chance to say I am not running for election this time.
My Red Hat-appointed seat of the last 18 months expires with this election. My interest is in seeing some new blood working on the Board. I haven’t been [...]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
At the wise prodding of Nigel, we created fedora-wiki@lists.fedoraproject.org.
“Oh, dude,” you might say, “Why another freaking list?” Maybe you wonder why fedora-docs-list isn’t good enough, since Fedora Docs are the wiki gardeners?
The scope of fedora-wiki@ is to be a moderate-level discussion list for everyone who edits the wiki. On the one hand, we [...]
FREEZE
:: Release notes content is freezing on the wiki for the Fedora 10 Preview Release on 08 October at 23:59 UTC. ::
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If you take a look at the wiki pages that are the source for the release notes (Docs/Beats), note the list of content areas (beats) that remain unassigned. What’s going on there? [...]
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Because Spot in looking out for it. Aside from doing a fantastic job, he is brutally honest. He also has a great turn of phrase:
“There’s probably a Perl script running that company now …”
(No, I won’t say what company.)
Thanks Spot for always being way out front on legal and licensing issues. Fedora [...]
Monday, September 22, 2008
Not like I plot out my career. For real. I follow my instincts, heart, and then my head, so I’m less good at metrics and more good at, “It feels right.” The goal is similar, though — find a good spot where I can generate the most value for the shareholders, make [...]
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
As Paul so kindly reminds us, Beta is a bigger attention point for a Fedora release. The release notes are front and center in that.
Talk about, write in your blog, share on #fedora-devel and fedora-devel-list, scrawl this URL on the wall of the T station on your way to Harvard Square:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Beta/ReleaseNotes
What do you [...]
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Because I have to miss the North American Fedora Ambassadors Day, I’m thinking (as usual!) about the challenges of remotely working with people. Once again, here is a stellar opportunity to figure out how to include the non-there-in-person parts of the community. Especially around planning and decision sessions, which are different from the [...]
Saturday, September 6, 2008
After moving to the new MediaWiki, it quickly became obvious that the old, CamelCase naming and organization scheme was insufficient. It did not take advantage of the more powerful MediaWiki categorization and namespace capability, created page names that are hard to understand and translate, and pages in CamelCase are (ironically) not searched properly by [...]
After my post, Why and where Fedora needs a CMS solution, which included a follow-up discussion on fedora-websites-list, there were questions and gentle dissent. I think those stemmed mainly from it not being clear what the intended scope is for a CMS solution. There were also calls for one or another specific CMS [...]
