Improving Ubuntu Help/Docs part 1 of 3

[Jerome Gotangco]

David, while most of the points you have raised are valid, your may
have missed the fact that the documentation project is purely
voluntary and the people involved do care that what they have written
works for the first time, if not after numerous revisions (we wont
reach rev 2900+ on svn if no work has been done). That's why they have
asked for feedback on all channels and even created 2 websites for
this: doc.ubuntu.com (docs on development) and help.ubuntu.com (docs
that are released). The documentation for Dapper is the finest this
team has released so far and provides better traction for future
releases.

It is also a vicious cycle - doc writers catch up on all the changes
with short notice and very much tied up to development milestone
schedules. As much as we would like to have professional-quality
documentation in the distribution, it won't be possible if we don't
have more eyes and brains picking on them (not necessarily a coding
responsibility). Note that this not only applies to Ubuntu, but with
other distributions and upstream projects as well.

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