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Re: RFC: revamping the help wiki

 

On 27 July 2010 15:02, Francis J. Lacoste <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There is a a third path that is relevant, and mostly already covered
> elsewhere: '- one for the Ubuntu community member'.

Ah, yes, thanks for that.

> There is a lot of material on the Ubuntu wiki about how to use Launchpad with
> Ubuntu, we might want to reference that material on the help wiki itself?

I think I'll mix linking to existing material with producing original
material where it seems necessary.

> On July 27, 2010, Matthew Revell wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm working on a revamp of the help wiki materials. I think the user
>> guide, hosted in the help wiki, covers much of the what and how of
>> Launchpad.
>>
>> However, we lack some of the whys of Launchpad -- i.e. explanations of
>> why we do some things the way we do -- and, more importantly, we don't
>> have much in the way of role-based guides.
>>
>> So, here are the broad areas I'm proposing to tackle in this revamp:
>>
>>  * Produce two main paths through the help wiki:
>>   - one for project owners
>>   - one for everyone else
>>  * Supplement these with guides (which may be original works or links
>> to relevant pages) for:
>>   - bug supervisors
>>   - bug security contacts (maybe)
>>   - bug triagers (maybe, although I think this may be too project-specific)
>>   - project drivers
>>   - release managers
>>   - translation team owners
>>   - translation team members
>>
>> I'd be interested to hear if you have any suggestions for the help
>> wiki and what you think of my rather broad plan above.
>>
>> Thanks,
>



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