Documentation Rifts and Rebuttals

[Alex Lourie]

Hi Ben

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Benjamin Humphrey <humphreybc at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> *"official documentation authors"*
> *
> *
> *There we go with the official stuff again - there is no such thing as
> "official" in Ubuntu! As far as I'm aware, none of the docs team are paid by
> Canonical for what they do, neither am I or any of our team. *nd
> contributors we have. But, obviously they feel different - perhaps this is
> why they are still struggling to find contributors to keep the documentation
> up to date, they might not be open enough to collaboration from other
> projects. Either way, that's not my problem, it's theirs.
>
> --
> Benjamin Humphrey
>
> Ubuntu Manual Project Leader
> Dunedin, New Zealand
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual
> www.interesting.co.nz
> www.benjaminhumphreyphotography.com
>
>
If the "official" does not exist, and not important, why is there so much
talk about it? Why not just put Ubuntu Manual on all the CDs, and that's it?
Why can't you?

I think that while not written anywhere specific, there is a concept of
"official" in Ubuntu Project. That's how the project is organized, and if
someone does not like it - they would be free to make an effort and change
things.

By that train of thought, why not call yourself "an official Ubuntu
Documentation team"? Manual is documentation, is it not? And when I'd write
a couple of scripts, I'd call myself an "official Ubuntu developer". And my
friend who created a couple of pictures, would call herself an "official
Ubuntu Artwork team member".

If any package, artwork, document, link, group of people, a developer, a
writer, an artist, all have to go through some *official *process to be
included on the Ubuntu CD or to be considered an "Ubuntu Member", then I
guess it is called "official" by common sense.

And anything "official" implies *rules*, no matter how bad or incorrect or
unjust they may seem.

Alex.
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