On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 01:25:57PM -0000, Matthew East wrote:
> * Colin Watson:
> > It's supposed to be on doc.ubuntu.com too, but that version is very out
> > of date. Matthew, could you look at upgrading that to the current
> > version in Edgy?
>
> We could do, but doc.ubuntu.com is currently only used for displaying
> work in progress documentation for the documentation team.
Well, it was you who agreed to put it on doc.ubuntu.com in the first
place :-) Either it shouldn't be there at all (and we should find
somewhere else to put it) or it should be up to date.
> A better place to put it would be on https://help.ubuntu.com, where
> all the other released documentation is. There are two reasons why I
> haven't put it there already - 1) the main CD now is the desktop cd,
> and I wondered whether it would confuse users to have the installation
> guide there for the alternative cd,
I'm sure it could be clearly labelled, e.g. "Install guide (not for
desktop CD)" or something.
> and 2) all the guides on help.ubuntu.com have nice Ubuntu headers and
> colours, whereas the installer guide doesn't (not a grave objection.
Can we do that easily with CSS?
Anyway, I'm happy to host it myself elsewhere, but one of
{doc,help}.ubuntu.com would be easier to find than somewhere random I
came up with. Either way, the outdated documentation we have there at
the moment is worse than no documentation.
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 01:25:57PM -0000, Matthew East wrote:
> * Colin Watson:
> > It's supposed to be on doc.ubuntu.com too, but that version is very out
> > of date. Matthew, could you look at upgrading that to the current
> > version in Edgy?
>
> We could do, but doc.ubuntu.com is currently only used for displaying
> work in progress documentation for the documentation team.
Well, it was you who agreed to put it on doc.ubuntu.com in the first
place :-) Either it shouldn't be there at all (and we should find
somewhere else to put it) or it should be up to date.
> A better place to put it would be on https:/ /help.ubuntu. com, where
> all the other released documentation is. There are two reasons why I
> haven't put it there already - 1) the main CD now is the desktop cd,
> and I wondered whether it would confuse users to have the installation
> guide there for the alternative cd,
I'm sure it could be clearly labelled, e.g. "Install guide (not for
desktop CD)" or something.
> and 2) all the guides on help.ubuntu.com have nice Ubuntu headers and
> colours, whereas the installer guide doesn't (not a grave objection.
Can we do that easily with CSS?
Anyway, I'm happy to host it myself elsewhere, but one of .ubuntu. com would be easier to find than somewhere random I
{doc,help}
came up with. Either way, the outdated documentation we have there at
the moment is worse than no documentation.