Jake Voytko wrote:
I did not suggest that we become Ubuntu.. please don't put words in my mouth ;). What we *should* do is take what works from the most successful communities. Go to their front page, and you see people smiling, and you also see the left nav essentially screaming "Develop! Help out!" I don't think it's any mistake that distrowatch.com lists them as the most popular Linux distribution. You're wanted there, and they make that clear on the front page as one of the most noticeable set of icons. If the goal is to have people be involved with the documentation, try to get cues from other projects that have big documentation communities. What did they do to get this way?
Whatever they did, it's probably not the quality of the documentation that made them successful (randomly picked example: https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/keeping-safe/C/users.html found under "Keeping Your Computer Safe" doesn't say a single word about password quality (and there would be many other things to say in the context of user management)). Boost isn't in a popularity contest. I don't see any point in referring to the success of the Ubuntu community as long as their (documentation) results look pretty sad. Regards, m