On Sun, Jul 1, 2012, at 02:11 PM, Kevin Godby wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > I intend for this message to start a mailing list thread and > discussion to review how things worked (and didn't work) during the > process of creating Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.04. This is a > general discussion thread, but I'll include some questions to get > things started. You're welcome to answer any, all, or none of the > questions as they apply and to speak generally about any other topics > that come to mind. > > Thanks! > > > What did you think of the process overall? Very streamlined and on time. > > Was this your first time contributing to the manual project? If so, > how did you hear about the project? Why did you decide to get > involved? Did you have trouble getting started with the project? > Were the other team members helpful enough? The other team members were especially helpful, however the problem i have is trying to use Tex through a proxy at the only place i get any sort of interent access. I submitted my additions through an ODT but they were not included in the finished manual...? > > If you decided not to get involved in the manual project for this > cycle, why not? What could we change that would increase the > likelihood of you getting involved in the project? > > How did you like your role (author, editor, translator, etc.) in this > cycle? Do you think you'd like to take on that same role again? > Would you like to try a different role in the future? I would take on the roll again if my work got included this time. > > Did you find it difficult to use any of the tools for our project > (e.g., bzr, LaTeX)? LaTeX only because of the TMG at my school, which blocks pretty much any traffic not from a recognised web browser. > > What did you think of the release schedule? Did it take too long to > release the manual? Did you feel rushed in your work? Did you have > enough time to do everything you wanted to do? We don't have to have the manual out that soon after Ubuntu, particularly for a LTS release, for an in between release nothing much changes anyway, and most users with moderate experience in computing *should* be able to follow the last in the time between Ubuntu's release and the manual. > > How well did the other team members communicate with you? Did you know > what you were expected to do at each step of the process? Were you > ever lost or confused about what you could work on? I did get a little lost about what part of the manual i was supposed to be working on, but that was maybe me misunderstanding and being new. > > Did you feel that you had sufficient knowledge and skills to do the > work that was requested of you? Do you think that training or > teaching by other team members would help? Easy! We don't exactly cover anything in depth like setting up a Squid cache or Apache web server, both of which i have done in the past... > > What do you think the team should do to improve the process for 12.10? Clearer directions, but I was new, so i should probably expect to get a little lost the first time around. :) > > > --Kevin Godby > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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