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 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.

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.

How it all gets done

 * Check out the Docs Project workflow
 * Works that are ready go into the next Fedora release.