difference in server guide documentation and help.ubuntu.com

[Peter Matulis]

On 09/18/2012 07:05 AM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> I have a question regarding 12.04 server guide version of dovecot and
> post fix configuration and the documentation at help.ubuntu.com
> <http://help.ubuntu.com> It seems to setup email with dovecot and
> postfix that the server guid is really lacking and that the
> help.ubuntu.com <http://help.ubuntu.com> is more accurate. I am a bit
> lost as to which one I should follow.
> 
> Any explanation would be appreciated.

Hi Jonathan,

All Ubuntu documentation is under help.ubuntu.com .  Maybe you are
referring to the difference between

https://help.ubuntu.com/<release>/serverguide

and

https://help.ubuntu.com/community

Anything under 'community' is considered 'community documentation'.
Otherwise it is 'official documentation'.  It's a bit confusing since
official docs are also maintained by the community.  The difference is
that the official stuff goes through a more rigorous QA process and is
kept in a revision control system (bazaar/launchpad) while community
stuff is wiki-based.  Due to the overhead in contributing to the
official docs the community docs tend to grow faster and can actually be
superior to the official docs, which, for this discussion, is the Server
Guide.  If I had my way, the best parts of the community docs would be
imported/moved into the Guide but I can never get any consensus on the
idea (at the last UDS).  If you want to get involved in improving the
Server Guide see my earlier post to this mailing list or go here:

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/09/11/call-for-contributors-to-the-ubuntu-server-guide/

Thanks,
Peter