Archive:How to contribute to Docs

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If it is redundant or silly, please feel free to kill it. Gratuitous linkage to other wiki pages is encouraged. This is a great wiki gardening task.

New contributors who have signed the FAS contributors agreement and signed up for the docs mailing list, are met with a lot of "what next" questions. This page will walk through some typical issues so you can start contributing quickly.

Become a part of the greater team by

• writing a self-introduction on the mailing list with some ideas on how you would like to contribute
• create your own user wiki page
• attend the freenode.net InterRelay Chat channel #fedora-meeting meetings on Mondays.
• hang out on freenode.net InterRelay Chat channel #fedora-docs
• learning how to be a be a fedora contributor in general
• interact with other fedora contributors (how to use fasinfo, lookup others wiki user pages, asking for sponsorship)
• voting

Decide how you want to contribute to Fedora Docs:

• Become a wiki gardener
• Write a beat
• Own a guide
• Maintain content on docs.fedoraproject.org (aka docs.fp.o)
• Work on open bugs by following the bug fixing workflow .
• Check the quality of docs
• Package docs
• Document how Fedora Docs works - ie this wiki
• Proofread works owned by other Fedora contributors
• Take on a bounty

Understanding the workflow:

Fedora docs has a workflow page Tools for guide owners - publican, gaining git sponsorship, tips on guide writing How to get docs.fp.o sponsorship