As announced and discussed on the f-docs-l, the Docs Team is attempting to take advantage of people's down time from work over the holidays to get some work done. We are proposing virtual hackfest days beginning December 27th to January 4th. If you would like to volunteer to lead or attend a hackfest please add your name below.
The hackfest is a time when we can gather together on IRC to work together using all the collaborative tools at our disposal. We will also supplement this with phone conferences as needed using Fedora Talk, to maximize our efficiency. If you don't know how Fedora Talk works, stop by our IRC channel and look for quaid, Sparks, ianweller, or stickster.
Tasks to be scheduled
Wiki Work
- Finish F9 User Guide modifications
- Update F9 User Guide to F10
Wiki to XML
- Post F9 User Guide -> F10, convert to XML Scheduled but needs a later date
- Move completed security drafts to XML
Creation Work
- None unscheduled
Communications
IRC: #fedora-docs on freenode IRC network
Talk (VoIP): Extension 2008
gobby collaboration tool
We will also need some tools installed - an editor (Emacs, vi, Gedit, Eclipse, etc.), publican, 'Authoring and Publishing' yum group, 'fedora-doc-utils' (possibly), git/svn/cvs
For assistance, stop by #fedora-docs and/or ask on the mailing list and we'll get each of those things sorted out.
Saturday, December 27th
Convert Installation Guide to Publican and document the process
Start Time: 0200 UTC
End time: 0600 UTC
NOTE: Could move to happen concurrently on Sunday.
Leader: quaid
Followers: laubersm
Output:
Sunday, December 28th
Rewrite User Guide to Fedora 9
Start Time: TBA
End Time: Till Finished
Leader: danielsmw
Followers: quaid
Status: Almost Done Output: [User Guide| http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_Guide]
Work on Security Guide Draft Items
Start Time: 19:00 EST (29 Dec 00:01 UTC)
End Time: 22:00 EST (29 Dec 03:00 UTC)
Leader: Sparks <- I may be late. /me stayed out of town an extra day.
Followers: Jmtaylor
Monday, December 29th
Hackfest Topic
Start Time: TBA
End Time: TBA
Leader: TBA
Followers:
Tuesday, December 30th
Cleaning Up Docs Project process
In its ideal form this is going to look like spring cleaning -- a lot of garbage bags on the curb and hopefully more space for useful things. :-)
Start Time: 1000 EST
End Time: 1800 EST
Leader: Paul W. Frields
Sparks - Probably later in the day as I have to work.
Ian Weller will probably be around.
laubersm will probably be around.
danielsmw will try to drop in for a few hours here and there.
Wednesday, December 31st
Post F9 User Guide -> F10, convert to XML
Start Time: TBA
End Time: TBA
Leader: Betty Harvey
NOTE: Time is dependent upon the data. Tools used will be dependent upon the format of the data. Without seeing the data the process will be Omnimark --> well-formed XML. Then use XSLT process to get the data into validated Docbook.
More Docs Project process docs
Finish implementing anything from the previous day's hackfest.
Start Time: 1500 UTC
End Time: 0000 UTC
Leader: quaid
Followers: laubersm
Thursday, January 1st
Hackfest Topic
Start Time: TBA
End Time: TBA
Leader: TBA
Followers:
Friday, January 2nd
Page renaming for fun and profit
Start Time: probably about 11am CST, 17:00 UTC
End Time: Whenever I want to strangle the authors of MediaWiki, or when we've fixed the entire wiki (probably about midnight CST, 06:00 UTC next day)
Leader: Ian Weller
Followers: all of the rest of you + danielsmw
Saturday, January 3rd
Hackfest Topic
Start Time: TBA
End Time: TBA
Leader: TBA
Followers:
Sunday, January 4th
Hackfest Topic
Start Time: TBA
End Time: TBA
Leader: TBA
Followers: