Documentation Rifts and Rebuttals

[Thomas R. Jones]

Hello all,

I am writing to address an on-going issue within this mailinglist. It
has become blazingly obvious that there is a rift among members of this
project with regards to the "Ubuntu Manual".

I have my own opinion about this project---but rather refrain from
proceeding into discourse about those opinions because I feel that there
is no point at this time.

I, for one, do not have the time to waste following meaningless banter
back and forth with regards to the "Ubuntu Manual" project. I have been
a documentation member of both Redhat and openSUSE/Novell. I know from
experience that with any given commercially supported project such as
Ubuntu/Canonical there is a process by which certain projects are either
accepted or denied. There is a formal approval process. There is a
formal team, usually composed of salaried employees of the supporting
corporation, and outstanding contributors from the open source
community.

Obviously, I am a new member to the Ubuntu Doc project(s); but i would
like for someone to stand up and make a decision so that we can get back
to doing something worth while rather than wasting time and effort on
this nonsense.

As a member of the open source community, I humbly request that whomever
is charged with the responsibility of the Ubuntu Doc project needs to
obtain some order before things get completely out of hand.

I have authored some 1,000+ proprietary XML documents for the Novell
documentation team. I have authored many of the security docs for the
fedora distribution. I have already developed some 32,000+ vulnerability
definitions for Ubuntu and it's derivatives that are waiting
transmission to NIST. I am a seasoned author and contributor to many
open source projects. I do not need rebuttals or statements validating a
certain posture for the "Ubuntu Manual" project. I just want to see this
rift ended before the entire community is derailed; accept the project
or deny the project. Fork from the official project or merge. Either
way...just get it done.

Sincerely,
Thomas Jones