Comment 7 for bug 60340

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Thanks for this.

* Colin Watson:
> 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 :-)

That's right. At the time, it was documentation for the development
release, which is why it was put on doc.ubuntu.com.

> Either it shouldn't be there at all (and we should find
> somewhere else to put it) or it should be up to date.

You're quite right, see below.

>> 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.

Ok. Is there separate documentation for the desktop CD too?

>> 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?

I think that it would be difficult, but I will look into it.

> 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 Either way, the outdated documentation we have there at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.

Again, quite right - this weekend I will make a note to look at this and
sort it out.

Matt
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