The SELinux Documentation Project [Request for topics]

[Joshua Brindle]

As we discussed at Linux Plumbers Conference during the 'Making SELinux 
Easier to Use" talk we have some document deficiencies in the SELinux 
project.

I volunteered to start an SELinux Documentation Project. The primary 
purpose of the project would be to get as much documentation as possible 
on the selinuxproject.org wiki, organized in a fashion that users can 
understand and consume easily.

As I admitted before, we, the developers, are not always the best people 
to judge what documentation users need and therefore am requesting 
users, hopefully from different backgrounds and environments, tell us 
what documentation they feel is lacking, what questions they've been 
asked or have asked themselves and couldn't find documentation for.

I think we need basic documentation that tells about SELinux (both 
beginner and advanced), howto's for specific things (using secmark, 
using netlabel, etc) and a set of short 'recipes' to accomplish simple 
tasks.

There are documents all over the place with various information, as well 
as blog entries and mailing list archives but the effort here is to 
consolidate all those resources onto selinuxproject.org.

I'd also like to see volunteers in the community to help out with the 
documentation effort, I know quite a few people already write things 
like this on blogs, etc and it would be great to see that information 
moved/copied onto selinuxproject.org.


Users:

Please, if you are a user and have run in to lack of documentation 
respond to this thread, or privately if you aren't comfortable talking 
on list so that we can collect what the biggest deficiencies are and get 
to writing documentation as soon as possible.


Thanks.