Questions from someone who is getting started

[Jonathan Jesse]

> Greetings, all,
>
> I've posted a few bug reports to assist with Xubuntu documentation, and am
> looking to contribute further to the Xubuntu-docs project.  I would like
> to
> download the current set ubuntu-doc files so that I can work with them
> locally, and then submit changes for review, but I'm having a hard time
> finding out how to do this.  I've gone through a number of pages trying to
> find this information, but have had no luck.  If someone could point me to
> the where I can obtain the source files for the documentation, I'd
> appreciate it.
>
> Also, I'm fairly new to this, so if any of you would be willing to share
> how
> you chose to set up subversion on your system to keep track of your
> changes,
> I'd appreciate it.  I can handle the actual installation (I've given the
> doc-related ubuntu subversion page a look over), but just want to know
> what
> others do.  For example, what directories do you install your source
> files.
> Do you just use your home directories?  Any other best-practices that
> you'd
> like to share?
>
> FWIW, I also noticed something that needed to be changed on one of the
> main
> Ubuntu documentation team pages, http://doc.ubuntu.com/.  It says to, "See
> the bar on the right hand side of this page to view our draft documents
> which are currently under development for release with Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper
> Drake!"  :)  If someone could update the "Dapper Drake!" part of that
> statement, that would be cool.  Thanks!
>
> Jim Campbell
> "j1mc" on irc.
>
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The wiki page, https://wiki.kubuntu.org/DocumentationTeam/GettingStarted,
is a great place to Get Started.  It contains links to the repository and
other tools to help you get started.
-- 
Jonathan Jesse