On Jun 06, 2011, at 04:21 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: >I can remember several years ago that one of the great advantages of Ubuntu >over Debian for the budding developer was that Debian had the New Maintainer >Guide, and Ubuntu had nice short wiki pages that told you how to get started >and hit the ground running. I feel like the playing field has been leveled >somewhat since then, but not in the direction I would've liked ;), because >there is a constant pressure to add more documentation. That's not a bad >thing per se, but we need to be vigilant that we don't add this >documentation in the wrong place. The "quick start guide" should be the >*first* place we direct new developers, with "would you like to know more?" >links available for them to drill down into; and if more documentation needs >to be added, it should be added on the individual detail pages. > >I think the Ubuntu Packaging Guide represents a great opportunity for this >kind of refactoring to take place. I don't get the impression that this has >happened yet.
Agreed! https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-packaging-guide/+bug/794293 -Barry
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