Fedora 11 User Guide

[Matthew Daniels]

On Mar 30, 2009, at 2:56 PM, Wolf DreamWalker wrote:
> Wondering who is working on this. Seems out of date since the last  
> version I can access is the draft for Fedora 9.

The best place to find it right now is on the tasks page [1].  I know  
it seems like User_Guide makes more sense, but since we only use the  
wiki for editing and collaboration and not for publishing, appearance  
doesn't matter too much, and User_Guide_tasks already had a task table  
set up when I took over the lead for the guide.

On Mar 30, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Kirk wrote:
> We're finishing up the F10 User Guide and will be starting on F11  
> soon.

Reiterating what Kirk said, the F10 guide is basically done, content  
wise.  I'm going to grab the MediaWiki formatting off the wiki so that  
I can convert it to DocBook XML when I get the chance (our MediaWiki - 
 > DocBook conversion tool is in the process of being fixed right  
now), and as soon as I do that we can start working on the F11 guide  
right in the wiki.  The F11 final release is scheduled for May 26 with  
the release candidate about a month before, so we may be able to push  
an F11 guide out the window by the time the final release is out.

On Mar 30, 2009, at 2:56 PM, Wolf DreamWalker wrote:
> Since I'm new to Linux/Fedora it would also give me a chance to play  
> with it to my heart's content ... as soon as I get to download the  
> beta which is supposed to be available tomorrow.

I would suggest you go ahead and download/install the beta since  
that's our upcoming task.  In the meantime, you may want to read  
through the current F10 draft to get a feel for the writing style and  
conventions we try to use.  It's definitely not perfect though, so if  
you want to find the final word on writing conventions, look around  
the style guide on the Docs Team page [1] or ask someone knowledgeable  
in IRC.

On Mar 30, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Kirk wrote:
> Suggest you get on the IRC server freeNode, #fedora-docs, and meet  
> everyone.  The lead for the User Guide is danielsm1 on IRC.

I usually have IRC clients open on different shells, so sometimes my  
nick is danielsm1.  If you can't find that, I'm probably danielsmw,  
which is what I try to use primarily.

Cheers,

Matthew Daniels

Links:
[1] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_Guide_tasks
[2] - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject