[CentOS-docs] Documentation SIG responsibilities

Thu Nov 4 20:15:00 UTC 2021
Rich Bowen <rbowen at redhat.com>


On 11/4/21 15:15, Shaun McCance wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working on revamping the Documentation SIG wiki page, and hoping to
> present where we stand to the CentOS board at some point.
> 
> https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Documentation
> 
> I'd like to have a set of core responsibilities. Proposal:
> 
> * Working with the Red Hat documentation folks on publishing material
> upstreamed from RHEL.
> 
> * Identifying, writing, and maintaining content aside from stuff that
> is intended for RHEL, whether that's in manuals or shorter form wiki
> material.
> 
> * Periodically auditing and pruning old and outdated documentation.
> 
> * Promoting CentOS documentation as a reliable source of information
> for CentOS and enterprise Linux in general.
> 
> * Working with translators to make documentation available in languages
> other than English.
> 
> * Working with other special interest groups on their documentation
> needs and helping them create, maintain, and integrate their own
> content.

I think this is covered under "reliable" and "pruning old and outdated", 
but I'd love to see someone take charge of doing a complete audit of the 
wiki and making it correct and authoritative. It has become a bit of a 
pile of "might be right, sometimes" over the past decade, and it's 
challenging to find anything in it.