On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 19:49 +0800, Christopher Meng wrote:

What should I do if I want to participate?

The entire process also came up in the meeting.

One thing that needs to be done before recruiting beat writers, and can be done right away, is to clear out the existing beats and put the beat open template in them. This is kind of grunty, but can be done any time before the beat writers are recruited. Also, the table of beats needs to be cleaned up for the new release.

The root of all beats is at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats

Next step is to review the schedule and translate it into something that can be followed, and can be used to track progress. I've done this on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Notes_schedule

The "official" schedule is pretty good, it has been cycled through a lot of times, but there are items that really are for other teams but Docs needs to shepherd, and there are a couple of items still missing, which are on the wiki page.

Looks like the little program I use for making the calendar images isn't in git, I thought it was. I'll fix that. That looks like an application that ought to be packaged, even. But the code is pretty ugly, needs plenty of love before it gets into a package.

NOW, the recruiting of beat writers can be started. The https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_workflow_-_beat_writing page is pretty good for helping the beat writers.

Beyond that is is basically following the schedule. The Alpha release notes are imminent, but they are pretty simple business. Pick a few key items from the features page and put them on a wiki page.

It helps to seed the beats with the features.

The main part of the job is following up on beats with no beat writer, or where the content is kind of weak and needs some help.

The first conversion is generally done by mw-render, and it goes pretty well. There are a few touch-ups needed to the mw-render output, but nothing too tough.

The communication with L10n needs to be constant.

--McD

On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 06:18 +0530, Buddhike Kurera wrote:

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:15 PM, John J. McDonough wb8rcr@arrl.net wrote:

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We need someone to take point on the Release Notes this cycle. I'll still be around to help, and should be able to do quite a bit, actually. But my schedule this fall is such that I can't be counted on to keep to a schedule.

It really isn't a huge amount of work. Most of the work is done by the beat writers. Probably the biggest task is recruiting beat writers and making sure that everything is covered. And, of course, simply hovering over the schedule and making sure nothing got missed.

And if you're anxious about the packaging part, that's pretty much automated.

So, anyone up for a new challenge?

Seems like a challenge, count me in if required.

I'm up for beat writer if you folks need one ;)

On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 07:57 +0200, Kévin Raymond wrote:

Le 23 août 2012 05:57, "Ankur Sinha" sanjay.ankur@gmail.com a écrit :

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On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 06:18 +0530, Buddhike Kurera wrote:

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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:15 PM, John J. McDonough wb8rcr@arrl.net

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Is there a wiki page started for this? Looking to link it on the website for the alpha release.

We always clear out https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats and its children. That is one of the first things that needs to get done, and that I'm already behind on.

--McD