As previously discussed, we – pbokoc and pboy – have launched a Fedora Community Initiative with the goal of revitalizing Fedora Docs.
The Fedora Council has now approved our initiative, and so we announce the official start of work.
The initiative aims, on one hand, to establish a support team that creates and maintains a productive environment for writing documentation contributions, and, on the other hand, to establish several subject-specific Docs Teams in which technical specialists, users, and writers come together to write and maintain documentation for a specific area of interest.
Every member of our Fedora community is welcome to join. You don’t need any special skills, we’re not looking just for writing specialists, or just technical specialists or any other kind of particular focus. Everybody is welcome to contribute in any way they can.
You can find a good summary of our ideas from an external perspective in the LWN article Improving Fedora’s documentation.
We would like to take this opportunity to discuss questions, suggestions, or other comments about this Docs project—its goals, ways to realize it, and implementation questions.
Ultimately, our Docs mission statement should be clarified and expanded, thereby transparently defining our goals.
Of course, we have to discuss other topics as well – create a work plan for November/December, discuss and formalize membership status and governance, organize our first working steps, e.g. set up our forge space, to name a few. But at first, let’s focus on the general perspective and come to an agreement on the basics. We will then start new threads for the other topics.