Meta discussions vs. docs writing

[Chris Perry]

Hi Gunnar

I certainly agree with your focus on getting things done (completing
tasks). The task completed might be writing/revising end user
documentation, revising internal documentation, a piece of research,
etc, etc.

I'm planning to do this: assuming ~ubuntu-wiki-editors is set up and
I'm allowed to join it, I'm going to have a look at the community help
wiki and find a writing/re-organisation job that I think is useful. I
may need some advice from the Docs Team about which of two or more
jobs is most useful.

What are you planning to do?

Regards,

Chris.

On 14 June 2016 at 16:31, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I can't help noticing that - as usual - the meta discussion threads tend
> to be rather long. Those threads include sometimes good examples of what
> can be done to increase the general activity, but the common denominator
> is that people post their ideas of what others can/should do.
>
> Personally I'd like to see much more of: "Hey, I see that page a or page
> a,b and c can be improved, and there is also a need for a page x and y.
> I'm going to propose the changes/new pages which I would like to see."
>
> A community like ours is dependent on contributors with sufficient drive
> to take such initiatives. The lack of such contributors is our main problem.
>
> My latest attempt to encourage contributors was this message:
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2016-May/019899.html
>
> The message pointed at some open bugs, and also included a general
> appeal to focus on misleading contents. I received one (1) private
> response, with some good specific ideas, but they weren't completed by
> the string freeze at May 26th.
>
> With that said, I don't claim that improved documentation and more
> concrete guidance wouldn't help; it probably would. But again: At first
> hand we need driving contributors, whose focus are to get things done,
> and who ask if they encounter problems rather than focusing on the fact
> that the documentation is not perfect (which it will never be).
>
> Are there any such prospective driving contributors on this list? If you
> are, please let us know.
>
> As long as there aren't, I fear it will keep being hard to motivate
> leaders/coordinators to step up.
>
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