Questions on Documentation on the wiki

[matthew.east.ubuntu at breathe.com]

Sean Wheller writes: 

> On Thursday 27 October 2005 18:37, Matt Kirchhoff wrote:
>> Quoth Dennis Kaarsemaker on 10/27/2005 2:46 AM:
>> > On do, 2005-10-27 at 09:10 +0100, Matthew East wrote:

{snip} 

> Matt Kirchhoff is right. 
> 
> The art of producing the docs for each distro in the same repos was originally 
> that we would all distributions would be able to benefit on the common base 
> and differentiate themselves with profiles and different stylesheet 
> formatting. But still to an everyday user, kubuntu is kubuntu, not ubuntu and 
> does not care much that there is a common base or that there is a Debian 
> system under there somewheres. 
> 
> In earlier threads I brought up the question of whether it is a good idea for 
> kubuntu to be developing docs in the ubuntu repos. People objected, I respect 
> that and we move on. However, it now seems that people have a similar problem 
> with doing kubuntu docs under ubuntu wiki. 
> 
> As I see it, without a technical benefit such as profiles or object reuse, 
> there is no real reason why kubuntu should be done under ubuntu. Oh the free 
> use of the Canonical server is a plus. 
> 
> Anyway, I ranted my reasons before, won't do it again. But this makes me think 
> there may be something to it. 

Ok this is wholly confusing two separate issues which each have separate 
arguments and justifications, which is unhelpful. 

The wiki point: there is simply a HUGE AMOUNT of Desktop independent 
documentation there which applies to both variants of Ubuntu. The idea of 
moving to separate wikis wholly ignores this obvious fact. In fact, there is 
likely more DE-independent documentation on the wiki than the other way 
round. Of course, Matt (K)'s point is correct: there is not enough 
documentation for Kubuntu and pages do not specify which desktop environment 
they refer to, this needs resolving by people contributing to the wiki and 
making pages like that CD ripping page better. Concerns about the wiki being 
removed from the Kubuntu website need to be address by improving the website 
IMHO. 

The repo point: this has nothing to do with common documentation, it is a 
social point. Forking off to another repository would promote divergence for 
no good reason, we need to be united. Especially since contributors to the 
various projects overlap. 

Please let's not confuse these two issues, otherwise we're entering a world 
of pain. 

Matt 

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