Does Ubuntu Care About It's Documentation?

[Matthew East]

Robert Stoffers <rstoffers <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Ok, so I thought I'd start blogging about Ubuntu.. to kick it off:
> 
> Does Ubuntu Care About It’s Documentation?

The answer to this is quite obviously yes, for a number of reasons.

 * for the last two releases a developer has been assigned to help out with
packaging the documentation
 * for the last two releases a Canonical employee has been actively working with
the documentation team on the wiki and the website
 * the system documentation and online documentation are given prominent links
in the System Menu

The one single thing you complain about in your blog post is that there is no
link on the front page of the website. While true, that is barely a complaint at
all: none of the support resources (mailing lists, irc, forums, documentation,
commercial support) are given links on the front page, but they all are found
under a single link: http://www.ubuntu.com/support

It would have been better to give your blog post a less provocative title,
because during the last release cycle you were a prominent member of the
Documentation Team and many may think that your views represent those of the
current team. Certainly from my point of view, they don't.

Matt