Ubuntu Documentation - Getting Started

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
I think it is a shame to lose the history but it probably allows a lot to get decluttered and work faster and more smoothly.  

If there were some easy way to automatically get all the contributers names into a list at the end of the document that might be good but i think a lot of people have chose on-line names specifically for editing that probably weren't meant to be seen by polite society.  There have been quite a few that made me chuckle! :)  

However my own edits tend to have been quite trivial, either while i was learning or experimenting with some things or while taking out spam.  So i am not as attached to most of my history as others might be.  Some people have put tons of work in and only a few of us get to appreciate that by looking at the history of a few pages.  


So, i don't mind losing my own history but others maybe might.  However that is fairly normal in OpenSource.  We keep moving on and enjoy the benefits that re-writes and de-cluttering give us.  MS keep trying to support legacy systems but as a result they tend to be over heavy and bloated and slow and oddly they also abandon legacy set-ups faster through trying to hang onto them too much.  Faster&lighter is one of the main reasons why i preferred OpenSource  
Regards from 
Tom :)  





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> From: Phill Whiteside <PhillW at Ubuntu.com>
>To: Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net> 
>Cc: Ubuntu Doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com> 
>Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013, 17:58
>Subject: Re: Ubuntu Documentation - Getting Started
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>Hi Doug,
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>if the system will not allow you to move a page, just give me dig in the ribs and I'll be happy to do it. Just let me know the 'from' link and 'to' link :)
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>Regards,
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>Phill.
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>On 16 August 2013 16:42, Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net> wrote:
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>>On 2013.08.16 01:23 Tom Davies wrote:
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>>> Sorry, i am a bit lost about the specific page being talked
>>> about here. 
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>>> I really like the look of this page right now.
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/GettingStarted
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>>To clarify:
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>>[1] Is the temp page that Phill started from Benjamin's google
>>docs page. Currently, and because in my option [2] has been put
>>to the incorrect spot and because I don't like that the history
>>information was lost in the move from [1] to [2], I am keeping
>>it identical to [2]. (and John did also, the other day.)
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>>[2] Is where Phill copied [1] to a few days ago. I disagree with
>>this location, as mentioned in [3] which has had no reply comments.
>>(Note: Things have progressed and [3] is largely obsolete now.)
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>>Wasn't the original thinking with [4] to put this new page at [5]?
>>(as linked to from the "Working on System Documentation" box in [4].)
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>>Is the reader confused yet?
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>>... Doug
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>>[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw/temp_Manual
>>[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/GettingStarted
>>[3] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2013-August/017468.html
>>[4]
>>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/GettingStarted?action=recall&rev=2
>>9
>>[5] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/GettingStarted/QuickStartGuide
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