Why not enabling APT links in the Documentation??? (bis)

[yann_ubuntu-1 at yahoo.fr]

Alan, Matthew, thank you for your answers.

@all:
I looked at the archives about this topic. If i understood well, this ML group is ok to use APT in the Documentation, but is blocked since Sept.2008 by the Ubuntu sysadmins.

1) It's 1st time I see such a "ticket request", how can we push this to go faster ?  (i tried to add myself as "requestor" but it didn't work). Do we have any clue why it takes so much time? Any answer from the sysadmins? How can we contact directly the sysadmins?

2) Before this request is approved, we could start using the "pkgb" intermediary method proposed by Jacob: see "VLC example" here :http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7022914&postcount=15
This will simplify the Documentation and it will be very easy to switch to direct APT links when they are enabled. 
Are you all ok to start this way?

Regards,
Yann



--- En date de : Lun 6.4.09, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> a écrit :

> De: Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com>
> Objet: Re: Why not enabling APT links in the Documentation??? (bis)
> À: yann_ubuntu-1 at yahoo.fr
> Cc: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Lundi 6 Avril 2009, 21h56
> Yann,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:40 PM,  <yann_ubuntu-1 at yahoo.fr>
> wrote:
> > I am very surprised that nobody answered my previous
> message on the ML. I think this will radically increase the
> popularity of the Documentation, so please have a look at
> it!
> 
> We've discussed this multiple times in the past and
> requested back in
> September 2008 that apt links be enabled on the wiki.
> Unfortunately
> the Ubuntu sysadmins haven't done it yet.
> 
> For those interested in following the ticket it is here:
> 
> https://rt.ubuntu.com/Ticket/Display.html?id=3005
> (user/password ubuntu/ubuntu)
> 
> -- 
> Matthew East
> http://www.mdke.org
> gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF
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