Hi Kartsen, you'll have my proposal by the end of the day. I am not good at writing content. :( I have sorted out all the technicalities though. Regards, Kunal Jain On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 5:48 AM, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kunaal: > > I know you are still researching, but I think you may have enough to > write up your proposal in the Melange tool. The deadline for > applications to be input is 27 March at 19:00 UTC. However, that is > followed by a few more weeks for you to work with me and other > mentors/helpers to refine the application. So your next step is to > work on and submit that proposal. > > https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/profile/register/student/google/gsoc > 2015 > > Once we have you (and any others) in the Melange system, I'm going to > work with Shaun and any others to help narrow my scope to something > that is and doable in a summer's time. Shaun's warnings about the > difficulties of syncing with an upstream are really important, and we > may want to think of a way to loosely couple rather than try to solve > the problem in general. > > If folks don't mind, I'd appreciate continuing at least some of this > discussion on this list -- we need to make sure that this toolchain > lines up with our process, and that process is itself sane and doable. > > Regards, > > - - Karsten > > On 03/17/2015 03:21 AM, kunaal jain wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:30 AM, Shaun McCance <shaunm at redhat.com> >> wrote: >>> Just to throw another wrench in: I don't know what DigitalOcean's >>> docs are like, but Linode generally provides their guides for >>> Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS. However, for whatever reason, they >>> tend to do Ubuntu first. So there are bunches of guides without >>> CentOS versions. >>> >>> They do allow people outside Linode to submit guides. So outside >>> of normal CentOS docs, a useful exercise would be for people to >>> port non-CentOS guides on Linode (and other places) to CentOS. It >>> would increase mindshare for CentOS. >> >> I think with porting of content, main focus should be on new >> content. If we create the complete documentation procedure i.e. >> automating this long procedure ----> writing content in markup >> language -> pull request -> discussion -> changes -> Identify the >> module and upstream -> converting content in relevant design, style >> -> pushing to upstream -> updating CentOS docs -> update website. >> >> If this toolchain becomes friendly, I am sure even the normal >> CentOS user, if learns new thing, would happy to write a document >> about it and push it to us. Even upstream software benefit with >> this documentation . >> >>> >>> Sure. I've dealt with quite a bit of this while working on GNOME >>> docs. It's challenging, but mostly enjoyably so. I mentioned to >>> Karsten off-list that, if you want a usable system at the end, >>> it's important to really define the workflow and what tools are >>> needed. I've had quite a >> >> Hence this thread comes into existence on this mailing list to >> discuss the workflow and tools with those people who actually deal >> with this on frequently basis. >> >> This was my attempt to start discussion on technical aspect of >> this. >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/2015-March/005594.html >> >> >>> few GSoC projects that just ended up as interesting experiments, >>> but never got used. Interesting experiments can be fine, but not >>> if your documentation strategy depends on them. >> >> I agree. But as Jason said we need to experiment, give people this >> new option. _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs >> > > > - -- > Karsten 'quaid' Wade .^\ CentOS Doer of Stuff > http://TheOpenSourceWay.org \ http://community.redhat.com > @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2 > > iEYEARECAAYFAlUQrTkACgkQ2ZIOBq0ODEH45ACgnqlD34nmxNGVdZoikHq4tso5 > oaQAn0Yy8BNMZqXQpCgZc5n0+ZF85d5Z > =4bxB > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-docs mailing list > CentOS-docs at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs