Contributors v. Writers v. Editors

[Chris Carlson]

Hello, all.  I've been lurking for a few weeks to see how the mail 
interactions progressed, and I've decided to introduce myself.

I'm probably one of the oldest members of this list.  I've been 
developing software since 1970, developing in Unix since 1978 and have 
worked at all levels of Linux, from drivers to C/C++ to Perl and HTML.  
I haven't delved into Ruby or Python yet, but it's just a matter of 
time.  I used to work at SGI with GL and OpenGL, though my graphics side 
has not been used for the last 10 years.

Because of my experience, I'm often more comfortable at the command-line 
level.  For that reason, I'm always doing "man <this>" or "info 
<that>".  Because of this, I'm very aware of man pages that are missing 
or out of date.  I like info, but usually only prefer it when the man 
page is long.  The only graphical man page I got comfortable with was 
xman, which apparently isn't available anymore.  I'm sure there are 
newer, better GUIs for man pages, but I'm not yet used to them.

Anyway, I also have a bent for using proper English (not British 
English, just proper grammar and punctuation).  I'm often editing 
stories, documentation or letters, and I'm a newsletter editor for the 
American Legion.

Given this background, I thought I could be of some use to the Fedora 
documentation project.  I'm not sure how much time I'll have, but I want 
to help.  I've already found a minor typo in the documentation for 
glXIntro.  The example program sets an attribute to GLX_DOUBLE_BUFFER, 
but the symbol doesn't exist; it's now called GLX_DOUBLEBUFFER.

So that's my introduction of myself.  Let me know if there's anything 
specific for which I can assist, otherwise, I'll just see what I can do 
and how much time I can offer.

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As for the message to which I'm replying, my guess is the wiki page is 
way out of date.  How should it be updated?  Any one of us add/remove 
our names?  Or is there an individual in charge of that?

Chris Carlson


Eric H Christensen wrote:
> I was doing some gardening in the wiki this afternoon and noticed something (I think someone else made a note on the wiki about this).  There are three pages listing "members" of the Docs Project.  There are contributors [1], writers [2], and editors [3].  Are these pages (1) redundant and (2) out dated?  I think the answer to both parts of that question are yes in which case I'd like to remove the Writers [2] and the Editors [3] pages and update the Contributors [1] page.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Eric "Sparks"
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Contributors
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Writers
> [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Editors
>
>