Things I write for Planet FedoraProject consumption
The FDP has been troubling lately over our translation tools, and we thought we lately had our problems licked by using xml2po from the gnome-doc-utils package, which purports to take care of the whole translation process. We’d use it to create POT template files, and the translators could use their …
It’s okay, Jesse, no one’s ever really ready, they just take it as it comes. Add clichés, rinse, repeat. In all seriousness, congratulations and best wishes to you both, and welcome to a wild but wonderful ride.
Linux has rapidly become as easy to use as (or easier than) any other operating system, even on laptops like my ThinkPad T43. Today my WiFi is working at the snap of my fingers while waiting at the airport gate. “Thank you” to all the NetworkManager contributors for making it …
OK, I apologize for the slug line; I couldn’t help myself. Could the news on Mono in Fedora have anything to do with this? Or is it purely an act of faith and community goodwill by the Fedora Foundation, still somewhat shrouded in a fog of obscurity and uncertainty? In …
Now that I’ve finished drafting some for-pay work I’ve been writing, I can move on to the Documentation Guide, which has become woefully outdated against our actual real-world processes. With some additional concerns about licensing and CVS i18n restructuring, just to name a few, it will be an interesting effort. …
Last night after a mini-marathon fueled by a slice of my mom’s derby pie*, I finally got package building working in Fedora Docs for the example-tutorial. Once we get the Makefile rules moved into the common one, and everyone starts converting their docs to use the new “rpm-info” DTD, we …
Every once in a while it’s good to write a check you can’t cash, metaphorically speaking of course. I volunteered to help out on the upcoming Fedora marketing blast by doing some audio recording for screencasts. I’ve often heard the audio for these, and it’s generally pretty bad, usually recorded …
Merry Christmas! The weather outside is… well, if not frightful, maybe just off-putting, but we had a nice morning anyway. Got a haul of nice clothes, the collected Bone, aftershave from the kids (don’t laugh, I asked for it — literally), and a business card folio. We presented the kids …
I finally figured out the KDE documentation procedure, which means I can get FDP work packaged for both GNOME and KDE. This was very important to me because I didn’t want to help perpetuate the perception that hard-core Fedorans don’t like KDE. I googled far and wide and found only …
Linux super-artist and Red Hatter Diana Fong has created a bitchin new desktop invocation of the Fedora logo. Check it out! UPDATE: Helped contribute some images to the tour page.