Does Ubuntu Care About It's Documentation?

Corey Burger corey.burger at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 08:25:52 GMT 2006


> 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

I am going to have to agree with Matt here. While there are still
issues to be dealt with, they are being dealt with.

And yes, a less provactive title would be great.

Corey



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