future of the Ubuntu Packaging Guide

[Daniel Holbach]

Am Freitag, den 14.09.2007, 16:24 +0200 schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> My fear with having that piece of documentation in a wiki is that we
> won't be able to deal with people asking for comments/clarification or
> just discussing things about certain parts.

I think that the opposite will happen. It will be much easier for us to
change things and we should have a more active QA on the documents, as
it's accessible to all of us.


>  This means that there would
> be absolutely no moderation at all, and lots of people will scrawl their
> personal opinions directly in the Guide.

With your proposal to ask new contributors to take a more active role in
documenting and/or fixing we should have a much better feedback loop
than we have at the moment. I think that's going to help.



> The only way of holding the quality of the Guides is by paying attention
> to Wiki notifications. Perhaps its just me, but I personally tend to
> ignore these notifications. If we have nobody to actively watch for
> changes contributors have done, moderate, correct and discuss them with
> them, I forsee the quality of the guide will decrease. If there was a
> group which would do that, it would work. However, my experience of the
> available manpower among us MOTUs tought me something else in the past
> :(

We didn't have that many wiki mutilation events in the last three years.
Is this a real threat we're facing?

Have a nice day,
 Daniel

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