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 23 July 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 November 05, 2009 (Wed US Time)
- Old Business
- Sparks to follow up with quaid to check on courtesy note to previous contributors
- Release Announcement
- To be ready no later than November 10.
- Guide Status
- Release Notes
- Installation Guide
- Installation Quick Start Guide
- Deployment Guide
- User Guide
- SELinux User Guide
- Security Guide
- Virtualization Guide
- Fedora Live Images
- Making Fedora Discs
- Accessibility Guide
- Complete rework. Organizing the guide into categories of solutions (i.e. screen readers, magnifiers, etc). Working with GNOME at this time to gain information from them. Next will be KDE.
- New Guides
- Status on CMS (Zikula)
- Status on CC license rollout.
- Outstanding BZ Tickets
- 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? |
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
* these two docs are low priority, but are short and easy texts ideal for new docs translators
Meeting script
#startmeeting Docs Project Meeting - Agenda: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_meetings
#topic Roll Call /me
#topic Last week's action items quaid to follow up with Mizmo on the Zikula theme quaid to follow up with Richard about the use of the CC logo on the wiki. danielsmw to package an editor for Scribite ianweller to bring to the list the text for the CC license for the wiki so it can be approved jjmcd to check with glezos on po's
#topic Release notes format changes Put All Changes in a separate doc? Drop beats with few changes Rearrange/add beats
#topic Status on CMS (Zikula) <-- ke4qqq #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Zikula#Module_status
#topic Status on CC license rollout. #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/License_changeover_schedule
#topic Shared open-source style guide #link https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2009-June/msg00163.html
#topic Outstanding BZ Tickets
#topic Guide needs?
#topic New Guides
#topic All other business
#endmeeting



