The SELinux Documentation Project [Request for topics]

[yersinia]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Joshua Brindle <method at manicmethod.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
> Great. This is probably one of the best things to do for Selinux.

> 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.
>
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