[CentOS-docs] CentOS-docs Digest, Vol 114, Issue 3

Fabian Arrotin

arrfab at centos.org
Thu May 19 04:46:41 UTC 2016


You should now be able to edit that /Books page with your wiki username
PacktPublishing.

Cheers,

On 19/05/16 06:13, Partners wrote:
> Hi Fabian,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> Could you please direct me to the person who could give me the rights to
> add our books?
> 
> Looking forward to hearing from you.
> 
> Thanks & Regards
> Sherwin
> 
> *Sherwin Silveira*
> *Key Partner Executive*
> <https://www.packtpub.com/>
> 
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> Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 07:09:58 -0500
> From: Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org>
> To: centos-docs at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-docs] discussions around upstream documentation
> Message-ID: <573B0A16.3050709 at centos.org>
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> The Fedora team is working on moving away from docbook and xml to
> asciidoc. This is a more straightforward approach in the file, with a
> reasonably easy syntax to learn. This will let us keep docs in git so
> that users who find something and want to fix it can simply submit a
> pull request or patch to update and someone responsible can approve or
> deny it.
> 
> In the future, it means that non-wiki docs should be easily consumable
> and editable. That doesn't help us for the current state of
> documentation, but it does help to resolve things for the future. I'm
> still working on the state of the existing docs via a few contacts I
> made at the docs day.
> 
> On 05/17/2016 04:07 AM, Brian (bex) Exelbierd wrote:
>> Jim,
>>
>> What were the outcomes from a CentOS perspective?
>>
>> thank you.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> bex
>>
>> On 04/11/2016 06:18 PM, Jim Perrin wrote:
>>> There is a Fedora Activity Day
>>> (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Documentation_2016 ) centered around
>>> documentation, where I'm going to see what can be done about the state
>>> of centos documentation from upstream sources.
>>>
>>> Most of the tooling for documentation for these two groups is centered
>>> around git. For the most part, our documentation currently lives in the
>>> wiki, and has a fairly high barrier to new contributors.
>>>
>>> Would the regulars who contribute on the wiki consider consider
>>> supporting a migration to a git based documentation workflow?
>>>
>>> I think this would help lower the barrier to contribution by allowing
>>> new contributors to submit a pull request or patch for documentation
>>> rather than join a mailing list, request access, etc.
>>>
>>> What are the thoughts or concerns about this sort of workflow change?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
> 
> -- 
> Jim Perrin
> The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org
> twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 18:51:02 +0200
> From: Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>
> To: centos-docs at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-docs] Request to contribute to wiki page (CentOS)
> Message-ID: <573B4BF6.8040403 at centos.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
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> On 12/05/16 10:00, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>> On 12/05/16 06:12, Partners wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We have received the subscription notification.
>>> Following is the information required to contribute to the wiki page:
>>>
>>> Username: PacktPublishing
>>> Subject: Book feature on the wiki page
>>> Location: https://wiki.centos.org/Books
>>>
>>> Thanks & Regards
>>> Sherwin
>>>
>>> *Sherwin Silveira*
>>> *Key Partner Executive*
>>> <https://www.packtpub.com/>
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Maybe I'm getting this wrong, but the goal of a wiki is to centralize
>> docs/howtos/tips-n-tricks on the wiki, and not promoting books ? Or are
>> those books under CC-by-SA license and so fully/freely available
> somewhere ?
>>
> 
> Just reading that again and it seems that /Books already has links to
> other books, so I guess that the centos-docs team is ok with that.
> If so, someone can probably give you rights to add your books there.
> 
> -- 
> Fabian Arrotin
> The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org
> gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab
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Fabian Arrotin
The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org
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