[CentOS-docs] discussions around upstream documentation

Brian (bex) Exelbierd
Tue, 17 May 2016 09:07:24 -0000

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?
>
>
>
>

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