Please read this in the spirit of my understanding what the CentOS community norms are. I fault neither of those mentioned for doing what they have done. I just want to understand how we all are documenting the CentOS distribution. In http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute#head-42b3d8e26400a106851a61aebe5c2cca54dd79e5 the standard for the wiki username is established as FirstnameLastname. In http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Centpkg, created and edited by BrianStinson, the Community Build System username is shown as bstinson In http://wiki.centos.org/zh/HowTos/Centpkg, translated by HoLee, the Community Build System username is maintained as bstinson. I would expect, either HoLee gets to use hlee or whatever would be his standard CBS username or all languages would use the same example, maybe, username. I imagine this is more a curiosity question on my part than anything else, but the only way I could get it answered is to ask it. Your pardon, please, if this is a "Dumb Question" or worse. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20141223/b65f311b/attachment-0002.html>
On Tuesday 23 December 2014, PatrickD Garvey <patrickdgarveyt at gmail.com> wrote:> In > http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute#head-42b3d8e26400a106851a61aebe5c2c > ca54dd79e5 the standard for the wiki username is established as > FirstnameLastname. > > In http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Centpkg, created and edited by > BrianStinson, the Community Build System username is shown as > bstinsonIf I understand your question correctly, your name as a wiki *author* is FirstnameLastname. When giving examples of commands, output, etc., you can use whatever you want. Sometimes you have to use the user "root" in an example. Yves -- Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca> GPG key 837A6134 at http://members.storm.ca/~yan/pgp.asc
On 12/23/2014 03:56 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:> On Tuesday 23 December 2014, PatrickD Garvey > <patrickdgarveyt at gmail.com> wrote: > >> In >> http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute#head-42b3d8e26400a106851a61aebe5c2c >> >>ca54dd79e5 the standard for the wiki username is established as>> FirstnameLastname. >> >> In http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Centpkg, created and edited by >> BrianStinson, the Community Build System username is shown as >> bstinson > > If I understand your question correctly, your name as a wiki > *author* is FirstnameLastname. > > When giving examples of commands, output, etc., you can use > whatever you want. Sometimes you have to use the user "root" in an > example.In other words, one can choose whatever username is preferred for community systems such as git.centos.org and cbs.centos.org -- for example, my commmunity username is always 'quaid' (when I can obtain it.) But the wiki stands alone in requesting that document authors use a "real name", i.e., FirstnameLastname of the autheor. E.g., my username on wiki.centos.org is KarstenWade. The same is true for all other project members that I have seen. FWIW, I don't follow this practice in other locations. For example, on the Fedora Wiki I am 'Quaid' and on Wikipedia I am 'iquaid', the latter being my preference when straight 'quaid' is not available to me. The FirstnameLastname preference for the CentOS wiki is a bit of legacy, and makes sense to follow simply for that reason unless there is a better reason to change it. Regards, - Karsten -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade .^\ CentOS Doer of Stuff http://TheOpenSourceWay.org \ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca> wrote:> On Tuesday 23 December 2014, PatrickD Garvey <patrickdgarveyt at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > In > > http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute#head-42b3d8e26400a106851a61aebe5c2c > > ca54dd79e5 the standard for the wiki username is established as > > FirstnameLastname. > > > > In http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Centpkg, created and edited by > > BrianStinson, the Community Build System username is shown as > > bstinson > > If I understand your question correctly, your name as a wiki *author* is > FirstnameLastname. > > When giving examples of commands, output, etc., you can use whatever you > want. Sometimes you have to use the user "root" in an example. > > YvesOf course, if the program being run in the document example requires superuser privileges, root would be a reasonable choice. What I am querying is whether a CentOS document should have a consistent look, right down to the username used in examples. Your assertion is, "you can use whatever you want." Is that the CentOS community standard? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20141223/a427b6a5/attachment-0002.html>