[[!meta title="SIPB Documentation Project"]] The SIPB Documentation Project is a project to document in written form the collective knowledge that SIPB members take for granted or use in maintaining services and projects that are not otherwise written down anywhere. See [[SIPB Documentation|/doc]] for documentation produced so far. Existing documentation can always be improved. Other SIPB educational activites include the [AskSIPB](http://www.mit.edu/~asksipb/) column in The Tech, an array of [IAP classes](http://sipb.mit.edu/iap/), and the weekly [Cluedumps](http://cluedumps.mit.edu/) series each fall. ## Documentation Ideas This is a partial list of further topics that need documentation. Additions welcome. * [[doc/Debianization]] (started, open for someone to finish)
How to package software for Debian and Ubuntu. Popular topic in SIPB projects thanks to [Debathena](http://debathena.mit.edu/) and [XVM](http://xvm.mit.edu). * "Printing at MIT" * `lpq`, `lprm`, `queues.mit.edu` * `-i printadm` (maybe) * "Using Debathena" -- You've installed Debathena -- now what? Automounter, `blanche`, cups; using stuff in the GUI. * "Athena Dotfiles" -- These are weird and nonstandard compared to traditional UNIX and should be documented, including things like `.environment` * There's some documentation at [http://web.mit.edu/olh/Dotfiles/] * scripts.mit.edu -- lots of neat internals to explain * AFS: There should be a central documentation point to using your AFS space, granting access through AFS and through `web`, accessing files from various platforms, and so on. Don't duplicate iAFS; perhaps latex2html and update it. Setting up servers: * "Client Certs" should explain, if for some perverse reason you don't want to use scripts.mit.edu :-), how to set up client cert authentication on your own machine (grab the CA out of the apache-ssl locker, submit a CSR to mitcert@, set up scripts' magic Apache modules to make your life easier) * Add your own here! ## Useful Links * [[ikiwiki/Formatting]] -- Documentation on this wiki's formatting language