adding X to server (+ documentation)

[Matthew East]

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Hi,

* Marcus Wagenaar:
> JoE wrote:
>> Hmm . . . i'm not suggesting that we use all the same documentation.
>> It would be useless, for example, to have synaptic documentation on
>> server.  
> 
> That's wasn't my idea either ;-) I just meant that the specific parts of
> documentation that are relevant to the server environment.
> 
>> But a good guide for installing various X environments (basic
>> X windows stuff, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, etc) should be
>> there.  Mostly what I meant was that the changes we make to the way
>> documentation is used and accessed should be echoed.  
> 
> Sorry, I really don't understand what you mean (the last sentence) but
> would like to give some input and maybe contribute to the documentation.
> Maybe you could clarify (ie. give a specific example) of server
> documentation. I don't have access to an ubuntu-server now so it would
> help if you could give an example of how the documentation is accessed
> at this point in time, and how the documentation looks.
> 
> I assumed the documentation was taken from various sources (official
> documentation, wiki, forum) and manually put together in (text-only)
> html pages (or something similar) with an index. That's why I suggested
> to focus on the actual documentation first before putting alot of effort
> into gathering/converting it for use in a server environment without X.
> 
> Some examples would make this discussion alot easier and may encourage
> people like me to start contributing documentation.

For discussing documentation, jump onto the documentation mailing list:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-doc

We produce a server guide which will benefit from your help!

Matt
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