Documentation Rifts and Rebuttals

[Stifan Kristi]

Alex Lourie wrote:
> Hi Ben
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Benjamin Humphrey 
> <humphreybc at gmail.com <mailto: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 <http://www.interesting.co.nz>
>     www.benjaminhumphreyphotography.com
>     <http://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.
hey, hey, what's the matter happen in here, is linux is to share n to be 
free, isn't it?
have a great day, all...
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