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Self-Introduction: Chris Savage
by Chris Savage 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm not sure if I'm supposed to drop this in bullet-points or not, but that feels weird. My name is Chris Savage, most people just refer to me as Savage, I'm (soon to be) living in Bradford in the UK and am a student at the University of Bradford. My goals? Well I really want to get involved in (and give something back to) the community more than I am at present. I quite like writing tutorials/HOWTOs as these help me remember (and learn) more as I go along. I'm happy to edit for technical accuracy. This will be my first community project, I've got a website over at www.savagereactor.co.uk, and do volunteer work for a local charity. Computing skills, I'm a general all rounder, but unqualified, I'm at an average intermediate level with Linux, programming, servers, networking etc. and more advanced with Windows. I've been using Fedora since just before FC4. Now I need to go read up on DocBook :) Chris Savage GPG Fingerprint: pub 1024D/483D1877 2006-03-28 Key fingerprint = 0959 5372 64A3 3CBD 37DB 0F6F CACC 3136 483D 1877 sub 4096g/4995A23B 2006-03-28 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEKeTfyswxNkg9GHcRAgOmAJ0f+Kl8bzFm2gS4bkZNiBWiVP4joACfbozt B9OxgKohMlZDvmnrUn16BlM= =zMrs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Tip a day
by Rahul Sundaram 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Hi Someone suggested earlier in fedora-devel list that we have a Fedora welcome screen on first login for new users to guide them. One of the usual inclusions in such things is a tip a day feature like those KDE has for example. We might be able to expand the scope of this if we have a place to submit tips and then collect, review and edit them and then display the published ones in the website with a different tip everyday. The best ones can be included later within the distribution if we have a welcome screen feature in a future release. Comments? Rahul

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List subscription/CVS
by Thomas Gier 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hi, I have one question and one plea for help: Question: How long does it generally take to confirm a subscription to Fedora-trans and Fedora-trans-DE lists? I subscribed to both two or three days ago but didn't get an answer yet. Problem: I fee a bit sheepish about this but since I have some spare time and would like to start contributing I ask nevertheless: I can't get CVS check out to work. I checked every resource I could lay my hands on but to no avail. I'm sure the solution is right in front of my nose but I'm stuck. Here's what I did so far: I created a Fedora project account and during this uploaded my id_dsa.pub file. "All done" was the answer of the project server. Sounded good to me. Then I set my CVSROOT and CVS_RSH env vars to the following: CVSROOT=:ext:<my fedora project login>@cvs.fedora.redhat.com:/cvs/docs CVS_RSH to "ssh" "cvs co docs" gave "Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).". Well ... Google coughed up myriads of hits but nothing apparently helpful. Some investigations later I ended up trying to be smart and added myself to the group "cvsdocs" in my project account with the result that I now have an entry in my account stating "cvsdocs [...] unapproved". I'm not to sure if this is correct anyway and there's still no luck with "cvs co docs". I have not the slightest idea what I'm doing wrong or missing. I'm not that slow off the mark normally but this is certainly a "Wood and tree" problem. Could someone please have pity on me and cut some trees?! Thanks for your patience. Tom

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PDF workarounds
by Karsten Wade 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Jeff Fearn, doing some work for Red Hat out of Australia, took a long, hard look at resolving our problems with the passivetex treatment of FO in making PDFs. His conclusion was, use a workaround in the XML. This from a guy who hates workarounds to bugs in the tools! So, that carries extra weight for me. I want to hear from anyone who has problems with PDF output and if these fixes help. Let's get some repeatable problems together with existing XML and file or support whatever bug reports we can. Problem: Poor Table Output Reason: passivetex is not generating or passing adjustable column widths properly. Workaround: Set fixed column widths in all your XML tables: ... <tgroup cols="3"> <colspec colnum="1" colname="Features" colwidth="3" <colspec colnum="2" colname="Features" colwidth="3" <colspec colnum="3" colname="Features" colwidth="1" ... Problem: Crashes on an image or cuts off the image. Reason: ? Workaround: Set a fixed image size that is not too wide for a page; we used to set no more than 4" for Red Hat documentation, since we printed to a 5.5" W x 4.25" H page (iirc). Does that cover all our current problems? This current PDF output path is working pretty well. It even accepts PNG images for both on-screen and printed output formats. :) Then we can have _two_ good, solid choices, which would be mighty nice. - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Editor * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Fedora Documentation Project http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject Learn. Network. Experience open source. Red Hat Summit Nashville | May 30 - June 2, 2006 Learn more: http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/

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LugRadio Live 2006 - Fedora BOF
by Gavin Henry 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Dear Lists, I've been invited to run a Fedora BOF at this years LugRadio Live event: http://lugradio.org/live/2006/index.php/Main_Page It's a 2-Day Event. List of speakers so far is: Latest Speakers * Mark Shuttleworth - Ubuntu * Gervase Markham - TBC * Bastien Nocera - GNOME development and Fedora * Simon Phipps - Open Source and Sun * Richard Moore - IBM and Open Source * Jonathan Haslam - DTrace * Steve Coast - OpenStreetmap * Kat Goodwin, Jen Phillips and Phated - Women in Open Source * Edward Hervey - PiTiVi * Scott James Remnant - Ubuntu * Barbie - Messagelabs and Perl * Mirco Müller - Lowfat - a natural way to view your files...with a twist * Sarah Ewen - Linux on Playstation 2 * Bruno Bord - This Talk May Contain Swearing * Jonathan Riddell - KDE 4 and Kubuntu Dapper * Matthew Bloch - Virtualisation and Bytemark * Alex Hudson - Hula * Martin Vogel - BBC Action Network * Ian Lynch - OpenDocument * Martijn van de Streek - Ubuntu * Michael Meeks - OpenOffice.org * Matthew Garrett - Linux and Laptops * John Leach - Everybody Loves Eric Raymond * Elliot Smith - Ruby On Rails * Paul Cooper - OpenAdvantage * Tom Steinberg - MySociety and Pledgebank * Ewan Spence - TBC * Christian Schaller - GStreamer Latest Exhibitors * CentOS * Joomla! * UKLinux * MythTV * Bytemark Hosting * OpenDocument Fellowship * KDE/Kubuntu * O'Reilly So quite high-profile! Might also be doing a talk on Catalyst with one of the Catalyst Devel Team. I was planning to talk about Fedora Docs and plans for FC6? Anyone other ideas? Can we get any goodies to give away? Can/do we have a Blurb for these kinds of things to put in the main LugRadio Site? Thoughts most welcome! Thanks, Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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SELinux FAQ compiling process
by Francesco Tombolini 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hallo, I have seen that the content for SELinux-FAQ is updated. I would update italian language files accordingly, but I have some problems while creating po files or html content, ex.: [tombo@grafica selinux-faq]$ make po-it xml2po -o po/doc-entities.pot -k en_US/doc-entities.xml Error: cannot open file po/doc-entities.pot for writing. make: *** [po/doc-entities.pot] Error 5 or while make html-it [tombo@grafica selinux-faq]$ make html-it xml2po -o po/doc-entities.pot -k en_US/doc-entities.xml Error: cannot open file po/doc-entities.pot for writing. make: *** [po/doc-entities.pot] Error 5 what can I do to work with this documents? Best regards -- Francesco Tombolini <tombo(a)adamantio.net> Key fingerprint = EDA9 7504 AA93 CEFC 5990 1356 8584 6B05 F140 5F73 http://www.adamantio.net

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Self-introduction: Tom Gier
by Thomas Gier 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hi list members, Let me introduce myself: My name is Thomas Gier (Tom is just fine). I'm 39 years old and live near Aachen (Germany), which is a very old and very beautiful city right at the border to The Netherlands. During my studies in the previous century (engineering and some terms in communication science) I started working as a technical writer. Currently I work for a big german company (Siemens) and write manuals for unified messaging systems. In one of my former employments I wrote documentation for a CMS and worked as a trainer. I'm familiar with DocBook - although a bit rusty after not using it for about 2 years - and did some stylesheet customising to fit my needs. Nothing extraordinary just a bit here and there. Since I just switched to Fedora I think it would be best to start with some translations to German. Writing new or maintaining existing documents would definitely be an option when I'm more familiar with Fedora (although I doubt that my English skills are good enough for writing new documents). I tried to register to the Fedora-trans-list but didn't get any answer yet so I'm writing to this list. Hopefully this is roughly the right spot but I think I need some advise on how to proceed. IMHO the best point to start translating would be the installation guide. I already have a GPG key and I think I completed the procedure to get CVS and bugzilla accounts; will chekc this later on. The next steps, I suppose, would be to get the english version, translate it, and check it back in to CVS. Is there a special module or repository for translated docs? Is there even one for german? Thanks for reading so far. Please feel free to give advise, point me to the right direction, say hello, ask questions ... :) Best Regards Tom

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FUDcon attendees
by Debbie Deutsch 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Pardon me if this might be off-topic, but I could not think of a better way or place to ask this. I will be attending FUDcon next week. (Seeing that it is so close to home, to not go would be a shame.) I am wondering who from the documentation project will be there too and if there is any interest in trying to find each other to say hello in real life? Debbie

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Release notes errata for FC5?
by Rahul Sundaram 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hi We got a handful of important notes added after the ISO freeze. Can we get an errata out for the release notes? Rahul

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[Fwd: CVS system migration done]
by Karsten Wade 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

The below message means a new system == new RSA host key, btw. -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> Reply-To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel- list(a)redhat.com> To: fedora-extras-list(a)redhat.com, fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com Cc: fedora-sysadmin-list(a)redhat.com Subject: CVS system migration done Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:54:14 -0500 (EST) Hi all, cvs.fedoraproject.org (aka cvs.fedora.redhat.com) has been migrated to a new system. Please let me know if there are any problems that need fixing... Best, -- Elliot -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Editor * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Fedora Documentation Project http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject Learn. Network. Experience open source. Red Hat Summit Nashville | May 30 - June 2, 2006 Learn more: http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/

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