Documentation help

[Manjul Apratim]

Hi Phil,

I was not referring to any official notification for deciding what should be
the portal for Ubuntu documentation, but as far as I am aware, the Community
Documentation is the only resource for technical information regarding
various aspects of Ubuntu? The Ubuntu wiki documents the hierarchy of the
Ubuntu team and the working of the Ubuntu machinery, but is not the go-to
area for technical support. I had brought up these issues in a previous
email to the mailing list, which are part of the June archive. Please
correct me if I am mistaken or have expressed a misconstrued opinion.

When I mean "fixed from scratch", I am really talking about scratch - fixed
page by page. I have started by fixing the opening page of the Community
Documentation, and as we speak I have moved on to the Installation section.
I imagine most, if not all, pages to be re-written from a new-user's
perspective, and make the Community Documentation at least as good as Arch
Linux's. I shall not be alone in this, because many people on the forums are
going to join in this effort - I have an ongoing thread for this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1762598

If anybody complains about the state of the documentation, the first
response from the team is naturally 'What have you done to contribute to
it?' and that is right; the documentation is what a community makes it, and
it is high time the community took action.

Manjul


On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Manjul,
>
> On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 12:29 -0400, Manjul Apratim wrote:
> [...]
> > dive into Ubuntu. The documentation has issues, and there is an effort
> > underway to fix it from scratch, of which I am part, and it shall be
> > fixed so, one step at a time. If you indeed go to Ubuntu.com and click
> > on 'Support', and go to the 'Official Documentation', that contains a
> > link to the 'Community Contributed Documentation', which is where you
> > shall want to eventually be going for all your needs. The fact that
> > this is convoluted to reach at the moment is an issue, and the
> > centralization of the documentation is also being pushed for.
>
> I'm not sure I'm following you here when you say "fixed from scratch".
> What do you mean by this? I was also unaware that the "Community
> Contributed Documentation" (i.e. the community help wiki) had been
> decided on as the portal for the Ubuntu documentation. Have I missed an
> email about this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
>
>


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Manjul Apratim
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