Create new documentation to give an official account of Fedora's history
This is a meta issue for tracking high-level project management around a mid- to long-term project.
Summary
Create a new Fedora Council-stewarded Fedora Docs site for the Fedora Story (docs.fp.o/story/
) to collect the history of the Fedora Project, the relationship with Red Hat, and other narrative-type information about the Fedora Project.
Background
Inspired by this comment:
[…] there are two things that come to mind that would be helpful:
- A bit of history of the whole project - the origins of Red Hat, Fedora, the connections and relationships that surround Red Hat, etc. I think it's a unique situation in the Linux world, at least, and a positive one / not something to shy away from - despite how some may feel about corporate involvement in FOSS, anyone looking at major Linux kernel contributors would have to admit that folks with financial/commercial incentives to improve the state of such software are incredibly valuable. IMO it would also help clarify why there are so many references to Red Hat across the "How is Fedora Organized" section.
- How to navigate the platforms, and what to use each platform for - mailing lists, Ask Fedora, Fedora Discussion, Matrix Chat, Fedora Docs, Fedora Project Wiki, etc. Maybe I missed it on the way in, so to speak, but I don't recall there being a reference like that.
Details
While the platforms and discoverability could be handled somewhere else (e.g. docs.fp.o/project/
docs), the part about the history could be contained either in a new dedicated documentation site or as a new module within the Project docs site, e.g. docs.fp.o/project/story/
.
Outcome
- Better discoverability of Fedora history, easier to understand how/why Fedora works the way it does
- Helps include others joining our community for the first time (sometimes it is hard to join a community of folks who in some cases have worked together for 10+ years)