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Re: New Contributor Guide

 

On 13 March 2013 19:58, Heling Yao <yaoheling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  +1
>
> We definitely could use some PR. Maybe it's time we set up a Public
> Relations Team (not sure if it's properly named), and maybe a Documentation
> Team.
>
> Are there some upstream resources (mailing lists, contacts) etc. we can
> take advantage of?
>

Not quite sure what you mean here, what specifically you mean upstream? If
you mean Ubuntu, then surely there are lots of resources, they have
community and documentation teams that we can certainly ask for advice or
assistance.

-- 
Anthony


>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> On 03/13/2013 07:17 PM, Anthony Wong wrote:
>
> Hi Heling,
>
>  It is very well written, thanks a lot!
>
>  IMHO we will also need community people to help on promoting ubuntukylin
> and organize offline activities, and also documentation people to help
> writing user manuals or guides or to maintain existing chinese materials,
> perhaps not necessarily ubuntukylin specific but may benefit the ubuntu
> project as a whole.
>
>  Cheers,
> Anthony
>
>
> On 13 March 2013 18:30, Heling Yao <yaoheling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> IMHO, No.1 is rather self explanatory and a bit geared towards
>> developers. I believe there are good docs in Chinese about this on
>> forum.ubuntu.org.cn and/or ubuntukylin.com
>>
>> No.2: Which attachment are you referring to? Is it specific to
>> UbuntuKylin or applies to Ubuntu packages generally? In my opinion, we
>> should use existing Ubuntu documentation wherever possible and add
>> documentation specific to our project.
>>
>> By the way, I've put up some content on:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuKylin/NewContributorGuide
>>
>> Everyone is welcome to take a look, give feedback, and/or contribute
>> sections specific to one's work.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Heling
>>
>> On 03/13/2013 05:42 PM, 张卫华 wrote:
>>
>> Hi Heling,
>>      We have managed to be a flavor from scratch. Too much work
>> especially documents work need to do. Just as you said "there are
>> designers, translators, users, testers who might be interested in
>> contributing; The project could go a long way by giving them some necessary
>> documentation. " However, the most important thing about documents work
>> at this moment I think is:
>> No.1 How to become a contributor of Ubuntu?
>>     - how to register on Launchpad
>>     - what is CoC
>>     - how to create and build a  debian package?
>>     - ....
>> No.2  How to be QA tester of UbuntuKylin?
>>      please reference to  the attachment. If you can translate it to
>> Chinese version, it will help us much!
>>
>>     As for docs for designers, translators, we can do one by one :)
>>     To this end, would you like to translate QA relevant docs for us?
>>
>>     BTW, at this moment we only focus on desktop, but we are keeping
>> track of other editions such as mobile phone, server and cloud, too.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jonas
>>
>>
>> At 2013-03-13 11:59:38,"Heling Yao" <yaoheling@xxxxxxxxx><yaoheling@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> What I'm thinking is rather simple: I read from h-online yesterday that
>> UbuntuKylin has become an official Ubuntu flavor, and am thinking maybe I
>> can contribute as well. :-)
>>
>> I'm more of a user/power user and would like to contribute to the
>> project, where do I start? That could be one of the typical user cases for
>> the New Contributor Guide.
>>
>> Jonas' idea is good (I read your post on ubuntukylin.com about becoming
>> a developer on launchpad), and that could be the basis of a developer
>> section for Contributor Guide.
>>
>> But then there are designers, translators, users, testers who might be
>> interested in contributing; The project could go a long way by giving them
>> some necessary documentation.
>>
>> By the way, what exactly is UbuntuKylin? All I know is that it's a Ubuntu
>> flavor customized for Chinese users. Is it desktop only, or there are other
>> editions (server etc)? Is this information available somewhere?
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Heling
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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