Organization Maps?

[Joseph Method]

Yeah, I was actually imagining something kind of cartoonish and
possibly insulting :), literally big arrows pointing from the various
options to the preferred solutions.

So, I guess I'm proposing  three different kinds of pages:

a) Bug/Help workflow: "Got a bug?"--> Search the database to see if
someone else has reported this [Show them how to do this] --> Search
the forums to see if anyone has found a temporary solution. Etcetera,
with explicit alternate routes like, "If you are an experienced
programmer and you have time, fix it."

b) Simple hierarchical (or if people like, "semi-hierarchical") chart,
like the one I just read about here at Canonical:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8752

c) Conceptual documentation diagrams for developers and volunteers,
relating to software and project dependencies. (e.g., Linux
kernel-->X.org-->Gnome, etc.)

And people can tell me what is not within the scope of the
documentation group or Ubuntu.


On 12/29/05, Corey Burger <corey.burger at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/29/05, Joseph Method <tristil at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all, wouldn't it be good to have a series of
> > organizational/workflow charts to make it clear where volunteers/users
> > should go? An organizational chart would steer volunteers by interest,
> > by language, by qualifications. In the workflow or decision-tree chart
> > it would make it clear, for instance, whether it's desirable for a
> > user with a bug to a) file a bug b) go onto an IRC channel c) mail a
> > -devel list. Then I think there is a need for a chart showing at a
> > glance the relationships betwen major projects and companies and an
> > end Ubuntu distribution, with links. These could just be simple image
> > mock-ups, but the best would be actual UML/semantic diagrams. The
> > bestest would be to have a huge organizational/dependency chart
> > automatically generated from various datasources, like the repository
> > dependencies! Okay, that might be a project unto itself, but I would
> > interested in working on some version of this. The feeling that I
> > would like to alleviate for potential volunteers is the sense of being
> > in a vast office complex wandering down empty hallways and peeking
> > into doors wondering where you supposed to go :)
> >
> > --
> > -J. Method
>
> Seems we need a Help! page.  It could say "Something doesn't work? go
> to X", etc.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Corey
>


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-J. Method