This morning the first smile I had was when I looked back over my shoulder at the Boston Cambridge Marriott to see not only my own Fedora window sign, but the signs of many others. (There is a small cluster of folks on the 19th floor.) The signs are a small brilliancy that came from […]
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The outside and inside of documentation, or, why aren’t you publishing on the Fedora wiki?
06-Jan-09You may have noticed there is a larger world of free software outside of Fedora than inside. The number of packages inside the Fedora Universe has really grown. You may have noticed there is a larger world of Fedora-specific how-to documentation outside of Fedora than inside. A really huge amount. You may notice that the […]
Functional areas of Docs Project
01-Jan-09This is a blatent swipe of my original email to the list. I’m revealing some of the interesting bits we’re going through in the Docs Project in improving our processes using the wiki in smart ways. I’m hoping this is useful for other projects who want to renovate their presence on the Fedora wiki, which […]
As part of a general housecleaning and reorganization, the Docs Project did some work to bring the Fedora 8 version of the User Guide out of obscurity. Originally destined for conversion to XML (to be translated, etc.), this guide has languished on the wiki in a draft location, unfindable and unloved. No more! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F8_User_Guide The […]
Docs virtual hackfest over the holidays
18-Dec-08The Fedora Docs team is going to have a series of hackfest days over the coming holiday weeks. Topics being so far include: Wiki training – how to, do this, don’t do that, etc. Conversion of an existing Fedora Docs guide to Publican Finishing of the F9 User Guide, possible conversion to XML Start work […]
ISV SIG pages receive love
09-Dec-08Did a little clean-up of the page contents and naming for the independent software vendors (ISV) special interest group (SIG) pages. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ISV_Special_Interest_Group https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:ISVs One of the goals I am pouring more personal resources in to is the recruitment and support of ISVs for getting packages in to Fedora. Now that the Fedora 11 schedule is […]
More than one way to skin a touchpad
02-Dec-08A few days ago we got a nice view in to all the opinions and methods for dealing with tapping and the touchpad in Fedora 10. Today I did an hour of work getting Jesse’s suggestion working. In the end, the minimal ‘xorg.conf’ file was not enough. I spent some time reading through the xorg.conf(5) […]
(Below for an appeal on how to disable tapping for the touchpad in Fedora 10, which is now different than previous.) Upgraded to Fedora 10 on the Thinkpad T60, overall everything is pretty sweet. I tried to upgrade from F8 using Anaconda, the result wasn’t that pretty and left me nervous — I was still […]
praise git
07-Nov-08We’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 […]
Board break
04-Nov-08With 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 spending […]