Historical questions

[Benjamin Kerensa]

On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net> wrote:
> Matt: Thanks very much for your reply.
>
> On 2103.05.19 10:26 Matthew East wrote:
>
>> The doc.ubuntu.com site hasn't been used for several releases as I
>> guess is obvious from the age of the material there. The way that it
>> used to work was that Canonical gave a few of us shell access to the
>> server and we had some scripts which automatically updated the website
>> with an html of the documents, for use as a preview site during the
>> development releases. What to do with the site now is up to the team,
>> but I would keep things simple and get rid of it.
>
> O.K. if there are no objections, I will try to make it disappear.
> In that case, I will want to do as I did in the 13.04 cycle and add
> a preliminary 13.10 section to help.ubuntu.com.

I will let Canonical IS know since I know a few from the team and can
probably get it done a lot easier.
>
>> In terms of how to access it, I'm afraid that someone will need to
>> liaise with the Canonical sysadmins, I haven't been able to access the
>> server for ages and I don't know anyone else who would be able to
>> either.
>
> I actually have no clue how to liaise with Canonical sysadmins, but
> I will try to figure it out (probably ask Peter Matulis for help).

There is a ticketing process and they are on IRC. Its not a very quick process.

>
>> I can't remember what docteam.ubuntu.com was for. Googling for it I
>> see emails from myself from 2005, I strongly suspect that it was a
>> previous version of doc.ubuntu.com (so in other words, it can be
>> retired).
>
> O.K. will try to make that one disappear also.
>
> ... Doug
>
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