Updating ContributeToUbuntu

[Esme Xuan Lim]

Hi there,

Thanks for being so friendly to the newbies. I'm Esme and I had been
keeping an eye on the mailing list for awhile now.

When I first thought of contributing I was thrown off quite greatly by the
number of channels where documentation could be found. For example, this
contribute guide that I tried to use to contribute (
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu ), I noticed, isn't part of the
CommunityWiki. However it is the first page that comes up for me if I
googled "Ubuntu contribute" and so I've had a want to amend these wiki, at
the very least to point new users in the right direction. I noticed that
Canonical have since created many new ways to engage with its community and
wiki (Discourse vs UbuntuForums; CommunityWiki vs wiki.Ubuntu vs 'Official
docs'), I'd like to update these contribute docs. At the very least I would
like to update information like this so that the barrier to entry doesn't
involve patiently trying to understand which contains the most relevant
information.

To start this I have these questions: Can I ask what purpose the
wiki.ubuntu serves in the context of documentation for contributing? Is
there also anything Doug or Gunnar would like me to add into the wiki for
contributing? You guys are Cannonical devs and I suspect that you two will
have the clearest idea for what the intent for new contributors to look
through will be.

I appreciate that these questions are vague. Quite honestly I'd be happy to
update another contribute guide if they served the purpose of outlining
contribute workflows better. These sources have been quite overwhelming, I
hope that in the devs (or someone knowledgeable really) answering this, we
could try to solve the tangled sources and to make contributing more about
time focused on solving the problem as opposed to trying to understand what
the workflow/toolchain to contributing really is. :)

Thanks
Esme