Documentation

Ubuntu Documentation Needs You!

September 4, 2013 By Benjamin Kerensa

As we near the Ubuntu Documentation freeze I wanted to highlight a piece of work that the Documentation team could use help with. In past releases we have used a bash script to collect fresh screenshots to ship with Ubuntu Documentation.

The script we use has been broken for a couple releases now because of changes in packages in Ubuntu and what appears to be changes in Unity.

Most of us on the team do not have the time currently to dive into this bash script and make it work but were hoping someone in the community can commit the time to getting this script working again.

The script can be found here, and if you patch it e-mail the Ubuntu Documentation Team mailing list to let us know. If you are interested in contributing to Ubuntu Documentation more regularly please feel free to mail the list and introduce yourself or see us on #ubuntu-doc on Freenode.

Ubuntu Documentation vUDS Session

May 9, 2013 By Benjamin Kerensa

Just a friendly reminder to those interested in the future of the Ubuntu Documentation Team and helping improve the process for on-boarding new users that we have a session called “Shaping a plan for the future of Ubuntu Documentation” which is scheduled for next Wednesday at 19:05 UTC.

Even if you cannot commit to becoming a Ubuntu Documentation Contributor we would love to have you sit in the session and tell us how we can improve the process for new contributors.

Tell us what makes the process difficult and how we can make it easier and share your experiences for on-boarding if you help lead a team.

See you all there and Ubuntu Doc for Saucy is now open for commits!

Ubuntu Documentation: Call for Contributors!

April 25, 2013 By Benjamin Kerensa

As some of you may be aware Ubuntu Documentation is struggling right now when it comes to active contributors well maybe struggling is putting things lightly. In any case Ubuntu Documentation Team needs new contributors and I have heard feedback from a number of community members that one thing they felt was blocker to them contributing in the past was that the process to get involved was perhaps too difficult and the existing team was not responsive to those interested in getting involved.

The good news is that there are folks in the Ubuntu Community who care about getting our documentation updated and shipped each cycle and there is now some interest to look at improvements that can be made to the Ubuntu Documentation Team processes in order to make the process for getting involved easier and more friendly.

Currently I have proposed a blueprint for UDS-1305 and I’m confident we will get a session approved and scheduled shortly to enable us to come together as a community and discuss and plan the future of the Ubuntu Documentation Team and define some work items to get things organized better.

So I’m putting a call out to the entire community asking that if you are interested in contributing to please look out for the documentation session and be sure to attend. Even if you can’t commit to helping each cycle perhaps you can just join in and provide some feedback on our processes and suggest some ideas for getting more folks involved during the Ubuntu 13.10 cycle.

Let’s make Ubuntu Documentation a first-class area of contribution in our community!