Status of Fedora docs

[Karsten Wade]

Note:  If I am jumping the gun and there is something else going on, now
is the time to speak. :)

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 16:16 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:

> One elephant-in-the-room is the release notes.  Currently these are
> being handled by John Ha, technical lead of the docs team at RH, but
> these really should be a community effort.  We need to do some serious
> thinking about how this could be done modularly by the Fedora developers
> with docs help.  A Wiki that gets contributed to as we go, edited by
> this group, and dumped to plain XML for the install?

Oops, I misspoke here.  John is not doing Fedora release notes.  FC
relnotes are entirely a community affair at this point.

Time to figure out a different method.  

Is there anyone interested in working on the relnotes?  You get extra
exposure to developers, if you don't have enough already :), learn lots
of interesting and esoteric stuff, and often more know about a given
test, rc, or release than you thought possible.

I'm looking into the Wiki at fedoraprojects.org, as it's the canonical
for Fedora.  My first proposal, therefore, is that we use the Wiki to
create a release notes page for every test, rc, and release, and
browbeat developers into contributing.

For the upcoming FC4test relnotes, we don't have time for a new method.
This is a good time for anyone interested to step up.

For FC4t2, I volunteer to be accountable for getting the process,
people, and relnotes together.  I think we missed the boat on test1, but
we can get a Wiki page started ASAP.  I'll do that immediately, and
start questioning folks on #fedora-devel about using that.  Ideally we
can get a bunch of developers to cobble together some notes that will
get us through test1 without corrupting anyone's data. :(

- Karsten
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