Bug 216387
Summary: | No documentation for syncronizing Fedora 6 with mobile phones | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Răzvan Sandu <rsandu2004> |
Component: | Documentation | Assignee: | Karsten Wade <kwade> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Paul W. Frields <stickster> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 5.4 | CC: | ddomingo, kwade, rlerch |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Documentation |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2010-03-06 18:43:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Blocks: | 216390, 245272 |
Description
Răzvan Sandu
2006-11-20 06:13:36 UTC
Thanks for your idea. I added it to the page of open document ideas: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/DocIdeas These are ideas that have been suggested without a writer already involved. We suggest these ideas to all writers in the documentation project. If you know of anyone who is interested in contributing to Fedora and has the ability to work on this type of document, please ask them to read this page to get involved: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/NewWriters I'm going to leave this bug open for now; there is a gap in our process as to what should be done with a 'docs-requests' report/RFE once it has been added to DocsProject/DocIdeas. Should it be closed as RAWHIDE in that the idea is now in the system in the Wiki? Or should it be left open until something actually happens with the idea, such as being written or dropped? I am here again just to add some information, for any interested reader: It seems that the Funambol Project developed some open-source, enterprise-grade software, both Linux and Windows, for syncronizing mobile phones and Blackberries, e-mail on mobile devices, etc. Here's the exact link: http://www.funambol.com/opensource/ I'd *love* to see something like that in Red Hat-like distros... ;-) Regards, Razvan IMHO, the lack of support for syncronizing mobile devices with a Linux desktop (in the relatively simple way users are accustomed to do it in Microsoft Outlook) is, today, one of the main road-blockers for a larger adoption of Linux as a desktop solution. Related to this, there is the absence of a centralised addresbook on the system that should allow users to "see" and "share" the same contacts data from various e-mail clients (for example Thunderbird under X and mutt in text-mode). Another point is an integrated solution for Blackberry-like services ("push e-mail", SyncML, etc.), that will allow users to see e-mails on their mobile phones when they are away from the Linux desktop. Regards, Răzvan thanks Răzvan, will keep this bug open for the next run of the Deployment Guide. blocking maintenance bug to put this on queue. Is Răzvan still interested in this content upstream in Fedora? You moved assignment, which seems OK -- it is your RFE, and you can shift who you ar requesting it from. However, having previously accepted assignment of this bug and related responsibilities, I wanted to know if you wish to have upstream Fedora involvement in this content. Don -- if you are planning on writing this, that's great. Maybe there is a way we can easily submit the content upstream to Fedora? It would map into the Fedora User Guide, most likely. thx - Karsten Hello, Karsten, Sorry for the inconvenience - *of course* I'm interested. Being a documentation-related bug, I thought that if this material will appear in official Red Hat documentation it will be more "visible" for all kind of users. For me, it doesn't matter if some chapter appears in Fedora or Red Hat guides - I read them both ;-) because I think they are priceless as canonical manuals. Regards, Răzvan Răzvan: Thanks for the clarification. This idea was added to the tasks page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Tasks (Page is undergoing changes, but it's there :) It could be a stand-alone or part of the Fedora User Guide. Although there is no mapping to or formal relationship with RHEL docs, if Fedora produces the content, RHEL is welcome to be a downstream consumer. Removing automation notification Hello, any news about that ? Răzvan Sorry, haven't intended to go silent on this. Our situation with Fedora Docs is having too few resources for the scope of work. I can continue to put this forward as an idea to write about, but there unless someone volunteers to do the work it won't get done. FWIW, the content would go in here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/DesktopUserGuide If you or anyone else is interested in writing this content, please work with that writing team to figure out where and how to integrate. Hello, If you please indicate me some "canonical" way of syncronizing a Red Hat system with a general-purpose mobile phone, via cable or BlueTooth, maybe I'm able to help in writing some piece of documentation. But I need a rogue schema of the whole process (programs and configuration files involved, points to their documentations, particularities for a Red Hat system, etc.). Please consider the case of the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in its use for desktops. We need a really simple and reliable way of exploiting mobile phone's facilities from a Linux office desktop (the way Nokia PCSuite acts, for example). Please consider Linux on laptops, Bluetooth and piconets in a regular business conference room, etc. It has to be *very simple and fast to configure and use*, given a working (supported) Bluetooth adapter... File sharing... Sending SMSes and e-mails via mobile phones at hand... Regards, Răzvan If anyone is interested in documenting this, please join the Fedora Docs project mailing list and let us know your plans. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project I'm closing this as WONTFIX because no one has stepped up in 3.5 years to do the work. |