New to the Documentation Team list. Requesting a Mentor

[Phil Bull]

Hi Joaquin,

CC: Adam Sommer

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 14:53 -0500, Joaquin Rosales wrote:
> Well, first of all, thanks for replying to my email.
> 
> To start, I would like to understand how the Ubuntu documentation team
> works in practice (I've started reading the documentation about the
> projects and the tools, but I still haven't gotten "the feel" of how
> things flow).

In short, people picks tasks to work on, send patches and review
comments back to the mailing list and other people review and then
commit their changes as appropriate. I'd recommend just jumping in at
the deep end to see how it works - there's nothing particularly unusual
about the way we work, I don't think!

[...]
> As for my interests, and after reading about the projects (and somewhat
> about the tools used in this Team), I think that the most natural place
> for me to start is with the Ubuntu Server Guide, as most of the work
> that I've been doing has to do with installing things on a bunch of
> servers, and think that this documentation is very important.

I've CC'd Adam Sommer, who should be able to tell you about what needs
to be done with the server guide over the next release cycle.

> As another note, I've had to check the ubuntu-doc mailing list archives
> online, since I don't appear to be getting any of the messages sent to
> the list after the one I got from you, Phil.

Hmm, are you sure that you're subscribed? You can check out your
membership here [1].

Thanks,

Phil

[1] - https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-doc

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