A bunch of us Fedorans are going to be at OSCON next week. The cool Fedora booth! Lots of open source ISVs to ask, “Why aren’t you in Fedora yet?” Free stuff! Hairy booth babes! A trip to the Oregon State University Open Source Labs!!
Aside from the Fedora work, I’ll [...]
Yesterday I was walking downtown and passed a big “FREE” pile that was leftover from a garage sale. There was a case with seven boxes of 50 each 1.44 MiB floppies. That is around 500 MiB of storage across 350 floppy disks. At the same time, there in my pocket were two USB flash drives, [...]
For some reason I thought that I had published a presentation with an EPEL package count that was wildly inaccurate, like 3000 for el4 and 7000 for el5. I could be recalling incorrectly, maybe I’ve always gotten that one right. If you have seen something from me that reports numbers that are high [...]
Luke Macken caught me for a few minutes last weekend, after he had talked with Greg about skillset capturing. Luke wanted to talk about the join page work that Mo and I lead last year, and how to merge that with the idea of capturing skills of people when they join, then funneling directly to [...]
In the talks that I was participating in on Saturday’s FUDCon BarCamp, I wrote notes and linked them from the final schedule. Unlike other types of conferences, there tend to be far, far fewer prepared slides for BarCamp sessions than typical presentation situations. I’m sure there are some slides that people have to [...]
Some memes surround activities as does fog by the Bay. Flying over the Sierra, Lake Tahoe about to slip below, it’s the kind of time where a disconnected writer is tempted to journal even without a blog client. This infamous travelogue. That’s right, a plain text editor (/usr/bin/emacs for me) is all [...]
This week I answered a question about lost content on the new wiki after the migration, from a contributor concerned about content randomly lost across the wiki and no one knowing it is gone. His suggestion was programmatic, that is, fix the migration script for where it dropped content and do some kind of [...]
The editing help and rules page (aka Help:Editing) in the Fedora Project has grown over the years, including a partial rewrite after the recent MediaWiki migration. It’s really very good.
Sure, it’s a bit long of a page. Well, not really, but I understand how you can feel that way. But it takes [...]
A few hours ago the wiki quietly switched under the URL cover, and with the final-import done, we are ready to have it, my fiends!
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki
There is a page you want to start at, and in particular the FedoraProject:Wiki_migration_to-do#Individual_folks_to-do_list.
There are many people who helped make this effort get even this far, especially all of you who [...]
In case you were wondering what the status of the wiki migration is …
The weekend went fairly well. Right now Mike is working on technical stuff, such as failover testing and redirects, which explains why the wikinew URL may not be working at any particular moment.
Look for announcements on fedora-announce list.
