<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hi :) <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Thanks for the clarification there. <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Ok, so we CAN post 'bug-reports' against the "man" pages even though it feels weird to be posting against documentation rather than programs/packages. However it is slightly out of our control whereas our own wiki-pages can be directly edited by us fairly
easily or at least is under our control. What we learn by doing wiki-editing helps with official docs because i think they use the same mark-up/down. Official docs have extra protocols, such as freezing, to help us fit in with other teams. <br></span></div><br>Regards from<br>Tom :)<br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Stephen M. Webb
<stephen.webb@canonical.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ubuntu-doc@lists.ubuntu.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 20 September 2013, 23:49<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: man pages - was: wiki vs documentation<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>On 09/20/2013 05:53 PM, Little Girl wrote:<br>> Hey there,<br>> <br>> Tom Davies wrote:<br>>> We should NOT be editing "man" pages. They are primarily written<br>>> by devs for devs and sometimes just about understandable for tier3,<br>>> maybe tier2, IT Support. They are NOT for general consumption<br><br><snip /><br><br>It's incredibly unlikely an upstream would ask someone to look over<br>something that they're probably unaware of and almost certainly wouldn't consider important.<br><br>You generally don't have to join an upstream project to
contribute docs or manpages. It's usually enough to file a bug<br>against the project with a correction attached. It's the writing (content) that's the difficult part, not the format or<br>mechanic of inclusion.<br><br>-- <br>Stephen M. Webb <<a ymailto="mailto:stephen.webb@canonical.com" href="mailto:stephen.webb@canonical.com">stephen.webb@canonical.com</a>><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>