http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ - no index file?

[Matthew East]

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Hi,

* Richard Johnson:
> On Wednesday 06 December 2006 20:56, Dan McGarry wrote:
> | Just noticed that <http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/> doesn't seem to have
> | an index file. Instead it shows a simple listing of the files and
> | subdirectories. Is that by design?
> |
> | It strikes me that either a redirect or a somewhat prettier listing
> | might be useful....

> That site (doc.ubuntu.com) hosts the builds of our trunk repo in Subversion. 
> The reason you see that is because of the different types of documentation 
> available under ubuntu/. Once you select something like ubuntu/desktopguide/ 
> you will then see the C/ directory, it is in here that you will find the 
> index.html file for the Ubuntu Desktop Guide. If you are looking for 
> the "pretty" effects of our "stable" system documentation, then you want to 
> look at http://help.ubuntu.com.

TBH, that doesn't really answer his question, because
https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ doesn't have an index file either ;)

The real answer is that the index is provided by the top level page in
both cases (i.e. http://doc.ubuntu.com and https://help.ubuntu.com) and
users are not really supposed to ever see the directory listing.

We could add an index page as Dan suggests, although I'm not convinced
it's particularly important.

Matt
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