status of changing documents for gutsy

Jim Kissel jlk at osml.eu
Thu Jun 14 14:50:07 UTC 2007



Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 21:44 -0400, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
>> Now that Tribe1 has been out for a bit, has then been any updating going on 
>> the documents yet?
> 
> Thanks for raising this Jonathan.
> 
> I would like to join this question. I often have ideas and want to make
> small contributions, but I can't really find out what the status of
> anything is...
> 
> Several times I've seen good ideas dissolve into "we haven't decided
> what direction the docs are taking..."
> 
> I was wondering if we could use the wiki better, maybe have a list of
> shortterm/ midterm and longterm goals? Please put me right if I just
> haven't found the relevant pages.
> 
>> Are we still moving forward with the topic based help structure?
> Personally I don't think topic based works well, but that doesn't mean
> much. What I think it does mean is that there should be a choice.
> There's no special reason why both structures can't be available. It's
> content navigation, not content in itself.
> 
>>  What projects are we focusing on for Gutsy including Kubuntu?
> Again I'll restate that I'm not the great workbeast here, and I'm
> grateful to those who are. But in my opinion out focus needs to
> be/include establishing a workflow for ensuring that the docs we release
> are current. It's so disappointing to see doc pages which are out of
> date and know that they are confusing new users, the opposite of what's
> intended.

Seconded.  I'd like to help correct some of the current documentation 
but have a minor problem I need help with to get started.
<https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-doc/+question/8197>

> 
> For both these points I think we need a wiki with a permissions system
> we can use so that we can protect important documents from changes by
> 'outsiders'. I don't know if moin-moin can do this but I know other
> wikis can. (I'm offline as I write, otherwise I'd lookup wikipedia's
> comparison table for wiki systems.)
> 
> A special thanks to Matthew East for his consistent commitment to good
> documentation.
> 
> Upward and onward for the Gutsy Gibbon.
> 
> Duncan
> (the opinionated documentation fan without the skills or time to
> contribute to the actual docs themselves... :-) )
> 
> 





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