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{{admon/note|If you get stuck, [[Contacting the team|contact the team]]|The best way to get answers is to join [https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/tosw the mailing list] and ask your questions, but we don't want you to feel stuck with that. Contact the [[User:Quaid|project leader]] with any questions.}} | {{admon/note|If you get stuck, [[Contacting the team|contact the team]]|The best way to get answers is to join [https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/tosw the mailing list] and ask your questions, but we don't want you to feel stuck with that. Contact the [[User:Quaid|project leader]] with any questions.}} | ||
Revision as of 01:38, 18 April 2011
Let your audience do your PR. They're pleasantly biased and decidedly not you.
A bit of wisdom from Rands that applies to communities and contributions: they are pleasantly biased and decidedly not you.
You are encouraged (HIGHLY) to contribute your thoughts, ideas, writing, expertise, critique, and just about anything.
Help improve this telling of how to know and implement the open source way.
A specific goal of this book is to have a community write about community.
This wiki is the upstream for the book and is where all of the collaboration on writing takes place. We can then form wiki-specific processes over time within the authoring community. That process is written up in Contributing to The Open Source Way.
A second step is the conversion of the content to DocBook XML for publication. That process is written up in Converting to DocBook XML.
The DocBook XML source is kept in a git repository at http://fedorahosted.org/tosw . Details on getting accessing, using, and contributing to that repository are in Contributing to The Open Source Way and Using git repository.
There is a Roadmap for this project that shows the path to the future.
The best way to get answers is to join the mailing list and ask your questions, but we don't want you to feel stuck with that. Contact the project leader with any questions.
Here is the status on the parts of this project you can contribute to, as of 2010-04-18:
- Wiki - any existing user can create a new user account for someone else
- Read and understand the Contribution policy.
- If you have any questions about the policy, contact the contributors via the mailing list; read Contacts for ore information.
- Contact an existing user to sponsor you on the wiki.
- Try searching the [[User:]] pages.
- Have that user follow the instructions on the page How to create a user account.
- Read Contributing to The Open Source Way.
- Read and understand the Contribution policy.
- DocBook XML
- Start by joining and talking on the mailing list.
- You need a Fedora account (FAS).
- Read Contributing to The Open Source Way and Converting to DocBook XML.
- Read Using git repository for detailed information.
- To get commit access, start by talking on list and submitting patches.
- Mailing list is self-service joining.
If any existing committer knows you and your work, that committer can sponsor you immediately for a wiki account and access to the
git repository.
