Ubuntu Documentation - Getting Started

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
Sorry, i am a bit lost about the specific page being talked about here.  

I suspect that Doug has done good work and kept it relevant.  I really like the look of this page right now.  
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/GettingStarted

There used to be a lot of stuff about getting a GPG key that always looked like it might be better on a separate page because it might be something that people outside of Documentation might want to do.  Do new documentation team members need to get a GPG key?  Is that part of joining Launchpad?  


All this seems so long ago to me now that i really don't remember.  I think i didn't join the full team as a proper member but just edited a few wikis.  I think the best test for a page like this is to see how easy a noob finds it.  

Is anyone on a User Support mailing-list/forum and able to post a quick little advert to let people know they could join the documentation team and/or ask them to test-drive this page?  In LibreOffice i recently had success with such an advert saying that their docs team was difficult to join.  Previously i've always tried to make it sound as though it's easy and then no-one has bothered but this time i got 2-3 people giving it a go.  I never understand people!  

Regards from 
Tom :)  





>________________________________
> From: Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net>
>To: 'Ubuntu Doc' <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com> 
>Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013, 3:18
>Subject: RE: Ubuntu Documentation - Getting Started
> 
>
>
>Hi Kevin,
>
>On 2013.08.15 17:50 Kevin wrote:
>
>> I think it'd be best to make this getting started page for
>> documentation contributors and have a separate page for documentation
>> packagers.  Contributors also don't need to install all the packages
>> during the first step.
>
>> What do you guys think?  Should we pare down this page to be for
>> contributors only and move the packaging-specific documentation to a
>> separate page?
>
>??? I do not understand. Did I do something wrong?
>I'm saying that the edits I did, have already eliminated any unneeded
>packages. I also deleted the entire GPG stuff. So, I'm saying it is already
>contributor specific, and even desktop specific because there is already
>a good serverguide specific "getting started" page (which needs the
>docbook packages).
>
>The packaging page, where Benjamin got a bunch of the content, and where
>Hannie pointed to that time, can stay as the packaging reference.
>
>However, and due to not needing GPG, I now agree with including the
>remaining content, rather than linking to the packaging page.
>
>There are still some other things to agree on, from my e-mail
>of the other day (which is why we are currently maintaining two copies
>of the page at the moment).
>
>... Doug
>
>References:
>
>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw/temp_Manual
>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/GettingStarted#preview 
>http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/getting-set-up.html 
>https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2013-August/017468.html 
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