Encouring contribution (was Re: Launchpad team management)

[Philip Wyett]

On 09/05/07, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Philip,
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2007 10:32 am, Philip Wyett wrote:
>
> > 1. Accept and Commit or Reject patches sent to the docs list in a
> > reasonable
> > amount
> >     of time - Less than a week preferably.
>
> We definitely do our best with this - but because our resources are
> already limited, sometimes you have to persevere and remind people to deal
> with your patches. Do you have outstanding patches?


I did submit a small addition (see attached). More really a mini addition as
I was
reading through all the wiki pages and getting up to speed and also to make
sure I was submitting in the patch format people are happy with.


> 2. DocTeam docs on the wiki are horrific, with no coherent structure and
> > leave you scrapping round for correct info.
>
> {snip}
>
> Thanks for this - all good constructive criticism. I'll try and fix all of
> the errors you mention. Please feel free to report/fix more errors and/or
> report bugs on the ubuntu-doc product.



No problem, I will have a good dig through the wiki and fix the minor stuff
and put up for discussion any major changes I feel could be made.


> 3. Better explanations of the linkage between docs svn tree and
> > ghelp/yelp.
>
> Good idea. I will take a look at the /Contribute and /Repository pages and
> see if we can make things clearer after the changes in layout over the
> last release cycle.
>
> Matt
> --
>
>
Regards

Phil
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