-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/25/2015 01:19 AM, kunaal jain wrote: > 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 Thanks, we'll start working on the proposal with you and other interested mentors now that the initial deadline is here. - - Karsten > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 5:48 AM, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> > wrote: 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 >>>> > > >> _______________________________________________ CentOS-docs >> mailing list CentOS-docs at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs > _______________________________________________ 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 v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlUV0w4ACgkQ2ZIOBq0ODEEK3gCfW4XCPi4lQ2ACy9mvAcbEY4Q6 3kkAn3NUiG+VIcAWNeaU6XYrQ0t4pE4s =rcTM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----