The Ubuntu Manual Team needs you!

[humphreybc]

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Hi everyone!

We need your help in fixing a heap of small bugs in "Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04" before the writing freeze next week, on the 31st. We have made it nice and easy for you to download the PDF, read as little or as much as you like, and then submit your feedback through a custom form that we've created.

We'll do all the hard work going through your reports and triaging them, then submitting them as bugs in Launchpad and subsequently fixing them before the 31st. We want to make it easy for you lads and ladettes to get involved and have your say, because our project cares about community input and wants to get as many people involved as possible!

Click here (http://ubuntu-manual.org/ubuntu-manual-draft.pdf) to download the draft PDF.

Then you'll need to read through the manual and look for:


Spelling and grammar mistakes


Factual errors


Missing references


Formatting errors


Sentences that don't make sense


Inconsistencies in wording


Somewhere where you think a screenshot is needed and there isn't a placeholder already


Start at a random place in the manual and work backwards or forwards. We don't want everyone starting at the prologue and getting a tonne of bugs about the prologue but none for Chapter 9, for example.

Each time you find any of the above, jump on over to http://ubuntu-manual.org/?bugs and fill out the form. It's as easy as that!

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The draft PDF version hosted on our build server (http://builds.ubuntu-manual.org) gets compiled and updated once a day at exactly 0000 UTC, so if you want to see whether your bugs have been fixed, make sure you come back here and grab the latest version by hitting the download button again. We have plans for a PPA in the future so you don't have to keep downloading it.

Oh and please remember, this is still the alpha version of the manual and we expect there to be a tonne of bugs, hence why we need your help to iron them out!

For more information and some pretty pictures see here (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/03/ubuntu-manual-project-needs-you.html), here (http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=2657) or here. (http://humphreybc.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/the-ubuntu-manual-project-needs-you/)


Thanks a bunch!

[juancarlospaco]

me?

i will check it :)

[Duncan J Murray]

Sounds good. I presume we will need to install 10.04 to check it against?

Duncan.

[l.billon]

Nice! I'll give it a look!

[jayze]

Read about 30 or so pages....Am very impressed! ....couldn't find anything grammatical or any spelling boobies anyway...I've saved it as theres a lot of info in there that will help a novice like me generally:)

[pdw]

Just a small question: is it intentional to have full-screen screenshots, like in page 106?

[Vinze]

...and where do we go to report bugs ourselves if we want to save you work? ;)

[lisati]

A brief look at the manual shows American spelling for "Software Center" in the text and the British spelling "Software Centre" in the graphics, round about page 105.

[phibxr]

This thread should be stickied until the release of 10.04. :)

I will have a look at the manual tomorrow.

[madjr]

This thread should be stickied until the release of 10.04. :)

I will have a look at the manual tomorrow.

+1 for sticky

[humphreybc]

...and where do we go to report bugs ourselves if we want to save you work? ;)

You can go to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual

:)

But we are no longer triaging them on Launchpad, we are just fixing them straight from the form results. We are getting hundreds and hundreds, no time for the four of us to report them on Launchpad.

You are still more than welcome to report them on Launchpad however.