Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Congrats and thanks

2013-04-28 Thread Kevin Godby
Oops. I promised "more below" about the new \status command but failed to deliver. The new status command has the following syntax: \status{}{}{} where is the Ubuntu version (13.04, 13.10, etc.); is the ISO 8601 date (e.g., 2013-04-28); and is the status keyword (e.g., incomplete, draft,

[Ubuntu-manual] Saucy Salamander

2013-04-28 Thread Craig Hrabal
Hi, my name is Craig, and I have been obsessed with Ubuntu and GNU/Linux for about a year and a half. In that time, I've spent most of my free hours testing development releases of Ubuntu. Though running test-cases and fixing an occasional bug or two can be rather stimulating, I want to commit

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Saucy Salamander

2013-04-28 Thread Patrick Dickey
Hi Craig and everyone, When it gets closer to the time, Kevin, John, or Hannie will send out a schedule of milestones. Typically the writing phase ends around Feature Freeze, and the editing phase ends about a week or so before the release date (which we're shooting to coincide with the actual rel

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Saucy Salamander

2013-04-28 Thread Hannie Dumoleyn
Hello Craig, Welcome to the Ubuntu Manual Project! We are always in need of new authors and editors, so we are very glad you want to become a contributor. Patrick has already answered your email, but here is some additional information. Ideally, we want each chapter to have at least one author a