warty-updates repository?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:56:36PM +0200, Ari Torhamo wrote:

> This is the first time I hear about warty-updates repository and it's not
> even mentioned in the Ubuntu web page (I did a search with "warty-updates"
> and the only relevat result was Markus Hubig's repository and I guess we
> are not talking about it). I haven't even seen it mentioned on this list
> before (it might have passed my eyes though because of the volume of the
> list). Downloading bug fixes sounds reasonable to me and I propably would
> have added this repository to Synaptic long time ago if I would have known
> about it (I was sure I already know everything I need to know about
> repositories - in particular what are the official repositories... sigh)

It's a bit hypothetical at this point.  There are about three packages in
there, one of which is the updated calendar artwork.

It would be great to have it documented, though.
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/Archive would probably be the place.  CCing
the doc team on this bit.

> This makes me intrested in the way information is gatherd to and organized
> in the Ubuntu web page. Is there, to say, a plan of what things should be
> found there and how they should be organized. It would seem good to have a
> way of making sure that at least things that most people would assume to
> be found would find their way in. Wiki is a great way to enable people to
> contribute information, but obviously having a wiki doesn't guarantee that
> an important thing gets documented or that anyone even comes to think of
> that it should be documented.

This is the domain of the documentation team.  Feel free to join ubuntu-doc
if you are interested in helping out.

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 - mdz