ServerGuide reviewers needed

[Ahmed Kamal]

On 08/22/2011 04:00 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Monday, August 22, 2011 08:21:35 AM Ahmed Kamal wrote:
>> On 08/21/2011 09:31 PM, Paul Graydon wrote:
>>> On 08/17/2011 06:33 AM, Ahmed Kamal wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> As you know Adam the maintainer of the serverguide had stepped down.
>>>> I'm trying to assemble a team of server oriented folks who are
>>>> interested in reviewing the Ubuntu server guide (making sure all the
>>>> info inside is fresh and accurate), this is only part of it, the team
>>>> would also work on creating a fresh chapter on UbuntuCloud
>>>> (openstack+orchestra+Ensemble).
>>>>
>>>> If you are interested, please raise your hand
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>> Hi Ahmed,
>>>
>>> Is there a general idea of what level we ought to be aiming the
>>> documentation at?  There is a bunch of things that could be added to
>>> the MySQL section, for example, without turning it into a full on
>>> MySQL Guide (unless that's what we're aiming at?).  Currently it's
>>> focussed along the lines of 'this is how you install it, start it and
>>> a couple of minor tweaks'.  It could be filled out with brief
>>> discussion of the different storage engines provided by the packages,
>>> their strengths and weaknesses etc.  The approach seems to vary
>>> between different sections of the documentation, and even within the
>>> same chapter.  It would seem in general that the database section is
>>> woefully lacking in detail compared to other chapters.
>>>
>>> Paul
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> So I got two questions that I'd like to answer publicly
>>
>> 1- What is our deadline
>> 2- What is the depth needed for the review
>>
>> My answer is
>>
>> 1- I'm no docs expert, but I checked and Oneiric "documentation string
>> freeze" is Sep 15th. Allowing for 10 days for merge proposal
>> discussions, we would have only *two weeks* starting today (22Aug-5Sep)
>> to get all the content you would like to review in a "ready to merge"
>> state from your perspective. As you can see this is not a lot of time,
>> so your prompt help is needed
> Documentation string freeze is for documentation shipped in the archive.  A
> few release cycles ago we removed the ubuntu-serverguide package and the guide
> is provided via help.ubuntu.com now, so we should have more time.  That
> doesn't mean people shouldn't start working now, but it's not yet critical.
>
Thanks Scott, good to know