Improving Ubuntu Help/Docs part 2B

[Matthew East]

Hi David,

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 19:52 +1000, David Tangye wrote:
> Any other feedback as to what you think of what I have written so far,
> either here or privately, would be appreciated.

Thanks for your comments. My view is this: you have said, in a whole lot
of words, nothing more than "you should be writing good documentation".
Don't worry, that's an aim we have too.

It seems to me that you have basically looked at the documentation on
the wiki, and found that it is not up to scratch. This too is something
that we are aware of. The wiki is a community maintained resource, and
as such is lacking in polish, and manpower. Great strides have been made
recently towards getting a good workflow which will best help maximise
productivity of contribution on the wiki, and with time, things can only
get better. However, resources are limited, and with any completely
community maintained resource, it will be incomplete, and sometimes
inaccurate. This is not something we try to hide.

This team has two jobs: to write the documentation which is shipped with
Ubuntu, and appears on the help website, and to oversee, supervise and
contribute to the wiki documentation.

If you have any concrete proposals about our infrastructure that you
think would improve the workflow, then please feel free to give them.
However, it's not productive of your time to continue these three parts,
feel free to just dive into the wiki and start improving things.

Help on using the wiki is currently at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WikiGuide
and also have a look at the page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WikiToDo

thanks,
Matt
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