- Name : Yuri Khabarov
- Projects where I worked before: http://forweb.su
At this project for web-designers and developers I was writing a technical notes about SQL and web-servers, such as Apache and Microsoft IIS.
- I think, that I have not a bad level of working on computer. So, I can build a web-server based on Fedora with apache-mysql-php. Working in bash is my commonplace. Also I have a certificate of MySQL administration ( http://www.intuit.ru/diploma/r0lySLZGyvu6/A00074937/), I think that my knowledge maybe useful. - Such as other my people skills, I can find a common language with every person. I'm a very friendly person :) - Why I want to work with docs? Every day on some linux-forums I see posts from users, who can't find some documentation for some programm, HOWTO-pages in russian language. In my town not so much people, who use linux, because a lot of users think that it is very difficult OS for them. - Other question: why I chose a Fedora? Because my father and I think that "right" linux is a linux, which based on RedHat distributive :) I'm using Fedora starting 4-th version, and I want to enjoy it more. - My GPG-key fingerprint:
[b00blik@fedorahost ~]$ gpg --fingerprint 2A567AE7 pub 2048R/2A567AE7 2010-07-31 Key fingerprint = F105 949F D450 9D15 B554 EDF3 BDAC 86DF 2A56 7AE7 uid Yuri A. Khabarov (The Man) madb00blik@gmail.com sub 2048R/C1374D9C 2010-07-31
On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 13:49 +0900, Юрий Хабаров wrote:
* Name : Yuri Khabarov * Projects where I worked before: http://forweb.suAt this project for web-designers and developers I was writing a technical notes about SQL and web-servers, such as Apache and Microsoft IIS.
* I think, that I have not a bad level of working on computer. So, I can build a web-server based on Fedora with apache-mysql-php. Working in bash is my commonplace. Also I have a certificate of MySQL administration (http://www.intuit.ru/diploma/r0lySLZGyvu6/A00074937/), I think that my knowledge maybe useful. * Such as other my people skills, I can find a common language with every person. I'm a very friendly person :) * Why I want to work with docs? Every day on some linux-forums I see posts from users, who can't find some documentation for some programm, HOWTO-pages in russian language. In my town not so much people, who use linux, because a lot of users think that it is very difficult OS for them. * Other question: why I chose a Fedora? Because my father and I think that "right" linux is a linux, which based on RedHat distributive :) I'm using Fedora starting 4-th version, and I want to enjoy it more. * My GPG-key fingerprint:[b00blik@fedorahost ~]$ gpg --fingerprint 2A567AE7 pub 2048R/2A567AE7 2010-07-31 Key fingerprint = F105 949F D450 9D15 B554 EDF3 BDAC 86DF 2A56 7AE7 uid Yuri A. Khabarov (The Man) madb00blik@gmail.com sub 2048R/C1374D9C 2010-07-31
Yuri
Great to hear from you.
Reading your intro, I wonder whether you would rather be involved in translation than Docs, but certainly, here in Docs we welcome the help.
Right now we are arranging "Beat Writers" for the Fedora 14 Release Notes. Both the Web Server and Database beats are open, so if this interests you, it looks like an opportunity.
If you are more interested in translation, then you might check out the L10N list https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/trans
Of course, there is no rule that says you can't do both!
Let me know your preference and if it is appropriate, I'll get right on approving your request to join Docs.
--McD
John,
Thank you for your answer.
If it won't impede you, can you describe me, who are "Beat Writers", please ?
Yuri Khabarov.
On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 01:20 +0900, Юрий Хабаров wrote:
John,
Thank you for your answer.
If it won't impede you, can you describe me, who are "Beat Writers", please ?
Yuri Khabarov.
Yuri
Good question. I think we have a page somewhere describing it, and I think it is probably badly out of date! One of the things I need to do is to figure out what we have and make it useful.
Basically, the idea of a beat writer is kind of taken from the newspapers. A beat writer selects a particular area of interest and then develops an understanding of what is happening in that area for the upcoming release.
The starting point is the "Feature Pages". However, these only cover the truly major features. Fedora now has over 15,000 packages and for any release a significant portion of those get updated. Part of what the beat writer should do is to look at upcoming changes in those packages and explore whether the change needs to be documented.
In recent releases, we try to only document "significant" changes in the Release Notes. But it takes someone with some feeling for the particular area to see what is significant, especially from a user perspective. What isn't significant to a developer might be very significant to a user.
The various beats are each quite different. The database beat, for example, consists almost entirely of MySQL, Postgres and SQLite and their associated support packages. The development tools beat, on the other hand, has hundreds of packages.
So the beat writer might explore the upstream release notes, perhaps talk with developers or maintainers, and decide that a particular changes requires something in the Release Notes. He then drafts something on the wiki. Depending on the change, he might ask a maintainer to review his draft to be sure he didn't mis-state something.
As we get close to Beta we will clean up and perhaps triage what is on the wiki, then convert it do DocBook/Publican for release. We try to get most of it in beta so that folks can submit bug reports against any issues in the Release Notes prior to final release.
We will also try to get as much translation done as possible for Beta, although the real thing is for final release. Between beta and final release we will try to minimize unnecessary changes so there isn't a lot of material that needs to be re-translated.
Translation is done by the L10N team, and we try to work closely with them, managing changes and providing them with nightly builds of the entire document in all the languages as the translation progresses.
So, that's kind of it in a summary. I suspect I wasn't concise enough with some things, probably glossed over others, but that is the way the Beat Writers contribute to the Release Notes.
The current beats, along with the names of folks who have spoken up for them, are at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats
Hope that helps
--McD
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