Re: [CentOS-docs] New User

2017-04-30 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 28 April 2017 at 01:00, Lev Lazinskiy wrote: > Hi Folks! > > Per the process outlined in the wiki[1]. I just joined the CentOS community > and would like to request access to create personal home page. I plan on > making some decent contributions to the wiki moving forward. > > username: LevL

[CentOS-docs] New User

2017-04-27 Thread Lev Lazinskiy
Hi Folks! Per the process outlined in the wiki[1]. I just joined the CentOS community and would like to request access to create personal home page. I plan on making some decent contributions to the wiki moving forward. username: LevLazinskiy [1] https://wiki.centos.org/Contribute#head-42b3

Re: [CentOS-docs] new user

2015-07-30 Thread Жељко Миловановић
Thank you! чет, 30. јул 2015. 16.41 Alan Bartlett је написао/ла: > On 30 July 2015 at 09:25, Жељко Миловановић > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > my name is ZeljkoMilovanovic and i would like to contribute primarily to > > Serbian localization. > > > > Please, create my personal homepage. > > > > Than

Re: [CentOS-docs] new user

2015-07-30 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 30 July 2015 at 09:25, Жељко Миловановић wrote: > Hello, > > my name is ZeljkoMilovanovic and i would like to contribute primarily to > Serbian localization. > > Please, create my personal homepage. > > Thanks! > > Željko Milovanović Done. A home page has now been initialised for you. Alan. _

[CentOS-docs] new user

2015-07-30 Thread Жељко Миловановић
Hello, my name is ZeljkoMilovanovic and i would like to contribute primarily to Serbian localization. Please, create my personal homepage. Thanks! Željko Milovanović ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/l

[CentOS-docs] new user - into and request for home page

2014-10-12 Thread John Willson
Hi all, > > My name is John Webb, username "johnwebb" I would like to contribute to WiKi on security topics, as well as general issues such as accuracy of articles/descriptions, dead URLs etc. Thanks, Sydney/AU ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@c

[CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:53 PM, R P Herrold wrote: >> By carrying two wiki, we avoid that workload, and can have a >> self-serve model for getting commits in the 'projects.' one, >> and the moderated approach on the vetted one. > > Bleh. And I mean rea

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-08 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:53 PM, R P Herrold wrote: >> By carrying two wiki, we avoid that workload, and can have a >> self-serve model for getting commits in the 'projects.' one, >> and the moderated approach on the vetted one. > > Bleh. An

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-08 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: > 2) Follow the currently more popular "community" model that is in use > in other OSS projects.  That means the wiki is generally open to > anyone with an account.  This model would yield a larger community of > people willing to contribute, at

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-08 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:53 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > By carrying two wiki, we avoid that workload, and can have a > self-serve model for getting commits in the 'projects.' one, > and the moderated approach on the vetted one. Bleh. And I mean really Bleh. Putting documentation into two different p

[CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Marcus Moeller wrote: >> The second approach sounds like more of a slam than living in >> a 'projects.' sub-domain to me. > Which means that there will possibly more than one documentation per > task, e.g. there could be a KVM tutorial in the moderated and one in > the 'open'

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-07 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Russ, > The second approach sounds like more of a slam than living in > a 'projects.' sub-domain to me. > > A refactoring of the personal homepages will have to happen in > any event, and perhaps we should simply have a './personal/' > in the main wiki and move all such into it ... but this t

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:53 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Ed Heron wrote: > >>  It appears that the people who are preferring the more restricted content >> guidelines are saying they will accept content separation.  But having 2 >> separate content systems seems redundant.  Is ther

[CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-06 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Ed Heron wrote: > It appears that the people who are preferring the more restricted content > guidelines are saying they will accept content separation. But having 2 > separate content systems seems redundant. Is there a way to have a section > (directory) of the wiki that i

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-06 Thread Ed Heron
From: "Ralph Angenendt", Tuesday, October 06, 2009 7:22 AM >On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Ed Heron wrote: >> From my point of view, the process wasn't onerous in itself. The only >> issues I had/have are the sparse guidelines of acceptable content and the >> voracity of the reaction, by some, t

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-06 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Ed Heron wrote: >  From my point of view, the process wasn't onerous in itself.  The only > issues I had/have are the sparse guidelines of acceptable content and the > voracity of the reaction, by some, to what they viewed as unacceptable > content.  It appears ther

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-05 Thread Ed Heron
From: "Ralph Angenendt", Monday, October 05, 2009 9:54 AM >... >Okay, than I did misunderstand that. Mind, that I'm not native speaker >either. > >Then *everybody* please be not vague: I think my last post might have fallen in to the vague category... I was trying to say that as one of thos

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-05 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Ralph Angenendt wrote on 10/05/2009 04:40 AM: >> Um. Since when does it, when you want to make a fix? As said, there >> are around 80 people who already are able to fix things all over the >> place. Which does not require to send a mail anywh

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-05 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ralph Angenendt wrote on 10/05/2009 04:40 AM: > On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: >> On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> Could it be that entry to collaborate is not low enough to make it work ? If >> you have too many rules, people might be afraid/unable to make the nece

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-05 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> > Could it be that entry to collaborate is not low enough to make it work ? If > you have too many rules, people might be afraid/unable to make the necessary > fix. Especially if it requires sending a

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-03 Thread Richard Bronosky
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: > Could it be that entry to collaborate is not low enough to make it work ? If > you have too many rules, people might be afraid/unable to make the necessary > fix. Especially if it requires sending a mail and decision by committee. > > My worries

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-02 Thread Dag Wieers
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: What you currently have is the "lock model", and with few admins the idea of opening up the system seems like a bad one because those admins will need to deal with all those errors, but this is not

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-02 Thread Ed Heron
From: "Ralph Angenendt", Friday, October 02, 2009 6:11 AM >We already have > 70 people who would be able to do so (no idea how >many of these accounts are still in use). Do I see those going over >pages? Rarely, it's nearly always the same persons. I'm OK with helping to update/maintain the wik

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-02 Thread PJ Welsh
>> +1 > > -20 This continuing drama is beginning to remind me of the Miller "Great taste, less filling" commercials of old (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Lite)... It's the same damn beer/CentOS people! ;) [?] <<347.png>>___ CentOS-docs mailing list

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-02 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Will Fitch wrote: >> Dear Russ. > >> It's not about creating problems but finding solutions. If no one has >> the right to fix errors in articles and if every minor change has to >> be discussed over and over again on the ML, it's the dead of a vital >> wiki. > >> T

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-02 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Marcus Moeller wrote: > It's not about creating problems but finding solutions. If no one has > the right to fix errors in articles There are around 80 people who have that right *right now*. Ralph ___ CentOS-docs maili

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-02 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: > What you currently have is the "lock model", and with few admins the > idea of opening up the system seems like a bad one because those > admins will need to deal with all those errors, but this is not the > case.  As soon as it's open, you'l

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-01 Thread Will Fitch
> Dear Russ. > It's not about creating problems but finding solutions. If no one has > the right to fix errors in articles and if every minor change has to > be discussed over and over again on the ML, it's the dead of a vital > wiki. > Then you need a CMS instead, call it docs.centos.org and lea

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-01 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Russ. >> Why not granting Edit rights (and I mean full Edit Group Access) to >> anyone who has already contributed good stuff. >> >> Then there should be something like a Wiki Admin group which will >> track changes and correct them || start discussion on the MLs if >> necessary. > > because

[CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-01 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Brian Mathis wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:45 PM, R P Herrold wrote: >> herrold: >> because creating a problem and fixing it ex post is harder >> than not creating it in the first place > Spam issues aside, that is the very concept of Wikipedia and other > wikis, and als

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-01 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:45 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Marcus Moeller wrote: > >> Why not granting Edit rights (and I mean full Edit Group Access) to >> anyone who has already contributed good stuff. >> >> Then there should be something like a Wiki Admin group which will >> track

[CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-01 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Marcus Moeller wrote: > Why not granting Edit rights (and I mean full Edit Group Access) to > anyone who has already contributed good stuff. > > Then there should be something like a Wiki Admin group which will > track changes and correct them || start discussion on the MLs if

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-01 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 11:26:40AM -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Phil Schaffner wrote: > > ... > > P.S. Also develop a thick skin. :-) This could be a proving-ground for > > technical writers in-training, and the constructive criticism can > > sometimes be a bit heavy, but

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-01 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Russ, >> Seriously, to me, I've been thinking about it the source of my >> concern for the last couple of weeks, and the tension comes >> down to 'core' v 'adjunct' and has a reasonably simple >> resolution -- split the two, and put all non-core material in >> a 'projects.centos.org' sub doma

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-01 Thread Ed Heron
From: "R P Herrold", Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:26 AM >... > Seriously, to me, I've been thinking about it the source of my > concern for the last couple of weeks, and the tension comes > down to 'core' v 'adjunct' and has a reasonably simple > resolution -- split the two, and put all non-core m

[CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-01 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Agreed, and there have been discussions of opening the process. For now > it's a meritocracy. Follow the process, become known to the community, > make some good contributions, then ask for a higher level of access. > Chances are it will be granted.

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-01 Thread Ned Slider
Steve Bonds wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Phil Schaffner > P.R.Schaffner-at-IEEE.org |CentOS| <...> > wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 16:25 -0700, Steve Bonds wrote: >>> As requested on http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute, here is my info: >>> >>> # your FirstnameLastname username [SteveB

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-01 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Grrr, let me try with a non-empty mail :) On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Steve Bonds <05s0pq...@sneakemail.com> wrote: > As requested on http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute, here is my info: > > # your FirstnameLastname username [SteveBonds] > # the proposed subject of your Wiki contribution(s) [Pe

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-01 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Steve Bonds <05s0pq...@sneakemail.com> wrote: > As requested on http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute, here is my info: > > # your FirstnameLastname username [SteveBonds] > # the proposed subject of your Wiki contribution(s) [Personal Page] > # the proposed location of y

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-09-30 Thread Steve Bonds
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Phil Schaffner P.R.Schaffner-at-IEEE.org |CentOS| <...> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 16:25 -0700, Steve Bonds wrote: >> As requested on http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute, here is my info: >> >> # your FirstnameLastname username [SteveBonds] >> # the proposed subje

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-09-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 16:25 -0700, Steve Bonds wrote: > As requested on http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute, here is my info: > > # your FirstnameLastname username [SteveBonds] > # the proposed subject of your Wiki contribution(s) [Personal Page] > # the proposed location of your Wiki contribution(s

[CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-09-30 Thread Steve Bonds
As requested on http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute, here is my info: # your FirstnameLastname username [SteveBonds] # the proposed subject of your Wiki contribution(s) [Personal Page] # the proposed location of your Wiki contribution(s) [Personal Page] I'll branch out from here. Maybe. While I u