Observations in packaged Ubuntu Documentation (Hoary)

Matthew Thomas mpt at myrealbox.com
Mon May 16 23:42:46 UTC 2005


Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> 
> On Monday 16 May 2005 10:25 am, Matthew Thomas wrote:
>> 
>>Important stuff first: I would love to start work on the Ubuntu help,
>>this week, if only I could work out how to do it. None of the help docs
>>seem to be in the ubuntu-docs SVN repository (except for the Quick
>>Guide), and I can't find them in the Web mirror of Gnome CVS either.
>...
> The first place to start is by using Subversion to checkout the current
> guides nand then start hacking away at it.

As I just said in the text you quoted, none of the help docs seem to be 
in the ubuntu-docs SVN repository (except for the Quick Guide).

> Start at http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/DocteamRepository/view?searchterm=docteam 
> which should show you how to download the repos.

No it doesn't; it talks only about the ubuntu-docs repository.

> Join the #ubuntu--doc channel on irc to help you out w/ more questisons

I'm already a regular in #ubuntu-doc, but no-one has been able to answer 
my question there so far, which is why I mailed the list. #ubuntu--doc 
doesn't exist.

Thanks
-- 
Matthew Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/




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