{Desktop 12.10 Topic] Holistic approach to Ubuntu documentation

[Chris Wilson]

Perhaps some mechanism to archive obsolete yet relevant wiki pages would be
useful here. I'm not sure if the current wiki engine has such a feature, or
what sort of effort would be required to hack one in if it doesn't, but
being able to classify wiki pages into separate tiers of importance could
be helpful.

I also think that keeping the docs for average users, power users,
contributors and developers (there seems to me to be four sets of users,
not three as has been mentioned earlier) makes sense since all of those
groups have different needs. I as a developer would like to know how to
navigate the Unity source code, or how to quickly learn the process for
submitting a patch (from start to finish), without having to wade through
pages of configuration file tweaks aimed at power users. A single landing
page for everyone starting out may be appropriate, but after that I think
they should diverge.

Chris

On 19 April 2012 08:30, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> In my previous email on this thread, I
> dug out a specification created in 2005, for example. It was
> implemented over 5 years ago, and hasn't been touched since then, but
> keeping it around reminds us why we did something and can be used as a
> reference if a similar discussion crops up in the future
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