Fw: Re: {Desktop 12.10 Topic] Holistic approach to Ubuntu documentation

[Tom Davies]

--- On Fri, 20/4/12, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

From: Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: {Desktop 12.10 Topic] Holistic approach to Ubuntu documentation
To: "Phill Whiteside" <PhillW at Ubuntu.com>
Date: Friday, 20 April, 2012, 17:23

HI :)
The best bet seems to be to make pages as generic as possible so that the advice and coding works for any version of Ubuntu and preferably for the rest of the family.  It's not always possible so it might need a sub-section to give specific examples on a specific release and then show how that might be adapted for other versions.  Sometimes a child-page would be needed and linked to but that starts making things really messy.  

A lot of the older pages that were written for a specific release probably still work for newer versions using the "classic desktop" (ie Gnome rather than Unity) but because they mention a specific release they are in danger of being deleted instead of just being modified to be more generic.  
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Thu, 19/4/12, Phill Whiteside
 <PhillW at Ubuntu.com> wrote:

From: Phill Whiteside <PhillW at Ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: {Desktop 12.10 Topic] Holistic approach to Ubuntu documentation
To: "Jeremy Bicha" <jbicha at ubuntu.com>
Cc: "Benjamin Kerensa" <bkerensa at ubuntu.com>, ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
Date: Thursday, 19 April, 2012, 14:58

Hi,

just a thought. For wiki content that is past EOL whilst having current information, possibly make a child page that is <wikiname>EOL with a link from the 'currently supported' page available so that we do not clutter the 'current' page up with 'old' stuff, yet anyone can still easily access it? 


It seems best of both worlds. Yes, I know it means that people moving EOL stuff to the EOL sub page, but faced with a page of EOL information alongside current versus deletion, I think it warrants a bit of discussion. I'm dead against deleting stuff, for example - some one may actually still be running 8.10, and see no reason to change. We should not 'force' them to change because we have deleted the information resource.


Regards,

Phill.

On 19 April 2012 18:42, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at ubuntu.com> wrote:

On 19 April 2012 08:03, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On 19 April 2012 10:17, Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>> I think it would be very interesting and important for us to try and update

>> a good lot of the wiki documentation in Q... In fact Matthew and

>>  Jeremy if you are going to be at UDS I would love to sit down and discuss

>> plans for Q.

>

> I agree. I won't be at UDS but feel free to set up a session. I'm

> happy to discuss plans and help on an offline basis where possible.



And I won't be able to go to UDS next month either.



Jeremy



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