The Bugsquad documentation , from Wiki to PDF

[Shahar Or]

Excellent idea! Keep it up!

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Mathieu Comandon <strycore at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Hello Bug Squad team
>
> I wanted to get more involved with the Bug Squad but I've always found
> it hard to get anything from the Wiki. I always get to the point where
> I have more than 10 open tabs on Firefox and I rarely finish reading
> any page. There's always an hyperlink getting in the way, begging to
> be clicked, promising new hidden knowledge.
>
> On my agenda I had planned to read every single page from the Bug
> Squad knowledge base, but it still didn't help. So I started making a
> flat document out of all this documentation. I like books or PDFs more
> than Wikis, especially if there's a lot to learn. Books have a start
> and an end, you can continue where you left when you stopped reading,
> you're not reading 10 pages at the same time and you know how many
> pages are left before you finish.
>
> I try putting pages in a coherent order and I avoid making forward
> references. Besides reorganizing the pages, I also format the pages so
> that they look good in Open Office, remove hyperlinks when they are
> not necessary or put them as footnotes. I intend to add every page
> from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CategoryBugSquad in this document (except
> IRC logs). There might be a few pages that are not related to bug
> management if necessary (i.e. from CategoryUbuntuDevelopment ).
>
> This is also a very good way for me to learn about dealing with bugs
> in Ubuntu. Bug Triage won't have any secrets for me when I finish this ;)
> When it's ready, it might be a good idea to make a  deb package out of
> it and include it in the repos.
>
> A sneak preview of the work done so far can be fetched here :
> http://strycore.com/ubuntu-bugs.pdf
>
> Hope you like the idea :)
> Mathieu
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