Flock to Fedora 2025

Fedora documentation has felt like a bit of a problem area for years. While we do have a respectable set of docs, its organization is lacking, and there are plenty of gaps, especially in documentation aimed at end-users. The project also struggles to find recurring contributors. The overall project situation has improved significantly in recent years, compared to a low point around 2020-2021, but there is still much to do.

This talk will discuss the current state of the Fedora Docs Project and its development over the past several years, identify common hurdles and issues that keep potential contributors away, present a user survey of Fedora Docs (scheduled for April), and outline next steps that we plan to take to both get more people involved and make contributing easier, as well as to improve and expand the existing documentation set: automation, streamlining the git workflow, and so on.

The available information about the use of Fedora Editions is sparse. It is essentially limited to the download numbers accumulated via “countme”. But even these are only partially meaningful.

The Fedora Server Edition Working Group has therefore conducted a user survey to learn more about the current user profile, as well as the wishes and expectations for future development. A total of 4,241 users participated, although only 574 answered all questions in a completely systematic manner. The evaluation is still ongoing. The results shed a new light on some of our plans for further development.

From our experience, we can also make suggestions for a systematization and regularity of such a survey, which can help not only the Server Edition, but also other editions and spins, in addition to “countme”, to reduce the knowledge gap about our users and their needs.