This chapter shows how to publish official Fedora Documentation Project work to the
docs.fedoraproject.org
website. To publish official documentation, you must be approved to
write to the web repository in CVS. Access for publishing is
limited to contributors who have demonstrated capacity for working
with CVS and other project tools. Once you have acquired and are
comfortable with these skills, contributions as a publisher are
welcome.
The docs.fedoraproject.org website
is a set of PHP files and scripts. Publishers maintain these
files in a CVS repository, and the website host retrieves them
hourly to refresh the site. The host does not automatically use
the newest content for the website. Instead, it pulls files with
the CVS tag LIVE to populate the
website.
Each publisher sets up a local testing website on an available Fedora system. This site, sometimes called a sandbox, allows the publisher to test and view changes to documents, and ensure stability on the public site.