From the docteam meeting

[Andreas Lloyd]

Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> Don has been doing brilliant, and even more important, work on fixing
> Yelp's search function, and I haven't dared distract him. :-)
> <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341434>
> <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341800>
> <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341797>
>
> Now that those are fixed, bug 344843 is #1 on my wishlist.

That is some really good work! I added the spec on a Contribute button
in Yelp to the GNOME wiki and as a wishlist bug:


http://live.gnome.org/Yelp/Yelp2Wiki
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348542

Hopefully, it'll be possible to have both bug 344843 and bug 348542
implemented. I'm not entirely happy with the spec yet, so feel free to
add to it if you have some good ideas to improve on the design.

>>
>> Sounds good. I don't have a copy of the book, but I'd definitely like
>> to help with that.
>
> The undiscoverability of our shipped help strikes again. :-P

No, my lack of conscious thought strikes again. I did see the book
chapters, but for some reason I thought we would be integrating _all_ of
the book into the desktop guide. Those three chapters are easy, though.

>> ...
>> I think the webpage is organized for a different purpose. When I open
>> the page I can only see "Free Support", "help.ubuntu.com" and "IRC
>> (Chat)" without scrolling. I'd like to have the 4 most used options
>> even more obvious. Having the further links as hyperlinks, requiring
>> further navigation makes it slightly more difficult to find the right
>> option. Maybe it's a question of reorganizing that page so that it
>> contains big buttons for each of the relevant options so as to make
>> it easier for the user to recognize.
>> ...
>
> Yes, maybe someone can start a redesign of that page on
> wiki.ubuntu.com, and once it's done we can send the wiki markup (and
> any images) to Matt Nuzum for replacing the current page on
> ubuntu.com. Any volunteers?
>
Actually, I began a mockup of a new support section 6 months ago, and
never got around to finishing it, shame on me...:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/SupportSection

Back then, I had a different goal in sight, which since has been
addressed somewhat
[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/sounder/2006-February/004029.html],
so I'll try a new proposal with a focus on just the community section.

There is plenty of room for other suggestions there as well. :-)

Andreas

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