Historical questions

Benjamin Kerensa bkerensa at ubuntu.com
Sun May 19 21:40:20 UTC 2013


Canonical IS now has a ticket 21812  open to look into it and I have
asked the Canonical Comm Team to also provide feedback.

On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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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