Hello folks,
After severals months of Michael’s hard work, we are glad to present a future
basis for new OpenIndiana documentation. The documentation can be found at
http://docs.openindiana.org.
Michael tried to make the contribution barrier as low as possible, so here are
couple of things:
• Documentation fixes/additions/removals all leverage the Github pull
request (PR) system.
• Every PR is automatically built and the result of each build is marked in
the PR menu. With this, you will know in a matter of minutes whether the change
you made is mergeable and satisfies our checks.
• After a PR is merged, the change is automatically built and deployed to
http://docs.openindiana.org
To begin contributing, the process is described in great detail at
http://docs.openindiana.org/contrib/getting-started/. Contributing directly
from OI is fully supported (either follow steps in the guide or "pkg install
mkdocs"). You may also contribute from non-OI operating systems.
With this pipeline, we can achieve fast and automated deployments and people
can contribute with confidence. Therefore, I would like to invite _ALL_ people
that are somehow related to OpenIndiana, most notably _USERS_ to participate in
the contributions.
Here are some of the ways you may contribute:
• Proofreading the documentation. The more times the documentation is read,
the better and more precise it will be. Having more eyes on the content will
boost our chance to spot errors and outdated content. As the ranks of OI
developers are steadily growing and new features/changes are being incorporated
faster than ever, the documentation will quickly become out of date. With more
people contributing to the documentation effort, this problem can be prevented.
• Review contributed content. There is never enough reviewers for the
content. So, any PR with content addition/modification/removal can use your
review.
• Write new content and add new section. The more content we can get, the
better the documentation will be.
• Adopt certain sections and actively maintain them as more new features
are being delivered to OpenIndiana.
I would also like to warn people that you still have to consider this project
as work in progress and it does not serve as Wiki replacement. The longterm
plan of this project is to serve as the end user documentation and fulfill a
role within the OI community much as the FreeBSD handbook does for the FreeBSD
community. Those who have used the FreeBSD handbook will know what I’m talking
about.
The OpenIndiana wiki has a lot of content, but a huge amount of it is outdated
and not relevant any more. However, this will be solved in the future by doing
another call for participants. Notes related to the OpenIndiana development are
to stay on our wiki in the future.
I hope the majority of you will like this project and we will see new
contributions flowing in!
P.S: In the future, we also plan to deliver an offline copy of this
documentation included with the installation medias. More information will be
provided later.
Cheers,
Adam
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