the wiki FrontPage discussion rolls on

[matthew.east.ubuntu at breathe.com]

Bradley Coleman writes: 

> i hope i'm not top posting!  think i got it right this time.

lol, top posting is the practice of posting a response above the quoted text 
rather that below it. It helps people follow emails, if you reply directly 
underneath the relevant passage, like this ;) 

> matts original intention was to have the UserDocumentation imply
> software only.  but of course, there is UserDocumentation in hardware as
> well.  matt agree's that this is confusing.  how do you guys think we
> should word this? 
> 
> i think we should do hardware user docs and software user docs.  or if
> there are docs in there are not user docs, we might want to say hardware
> docs and software docs to maintain generality. 
> 
> also, i think hardware and software should be right next to each other
> on the top of the list.

I think we have a genuine issue here. There are two types of pages on the 
wiki concerning hardware: 1. pages which list which types of hardware Ubuntu 
is compatible with, and 2. pages which give users help on installing and 
configuring various bits of hardware with Ubuntu. The latter fall clearly 
within the concept of UserDocumentation as it currently stands, but there is 
also a clear overlap with 1. It makes a lot of sense to have type 2. pages 
linked from type 1. pages. 

As I see it, we have three choices:
(a) attempt to draw the correct dividing line between the two types of page 
I've described (IMO difficult if not impossible, and also undesirable)
(b) merge all hardware related documentation into UserDocumentation
(c) change the concept of UserDocumentation so that it excludes hardware 
related documentation. 

My choice would probably be (b), but I don't really know. Also, you guys 
have more experience than me with these things. Thoughts? 

M