Helping your documentation effort.

[Matthew East]

Hi Duncan,

No need to cc: me, I read the list.

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 00:44 +0200, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 21:39 +0100, Matthew East wrote: 
> > > 
> > > Would you agree that these are not ideal methods? Particularly because
> > > the doc and the message are not left side by side for others to see.
> > 
> > Each document has a "how to contribute/give feedback" section.
> > 
> > In the past we've thought about including a link in the html version on
> > every page for feedback, but this hasn't been implemented yet. My
> > thought would be to do this on the work in progress documentation, and
> > not on the published documentation.
> Well, yes, having such a 'leave a comment' on the work in progress
> documentation would be great. But that's always current release+1. How
> do we keep previous releases docs available for adding comments?

Read above, "each document has a feedback section". Please read that,
and if you think it is deficient in some way, let us know how you would
improve it.

{snip}

> And _please_ let's not pretend that a new user is going to wade through
> launchpad or Malone, or learn to use a wiki, just to report a spelling
> mistake or confusing explanation.

No one is pretending that: I realise that you feel strongly about this,
and that's good, but there is no need for melodrama where we already
have common ground.

Matt 
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