Single app for documentation editors

Hi all.

I'd like to suggest the development of a single piece of software that could be used for the downloading, editing, submitting and viewing of Ubuntu documentation.

Something along the lines of an app that will allow documentation contributors to download, review, edit, save and upload help and other Ubuntu documentation.

I'm imagining an app with a gui frontend with menu options as described above and others as neccesary. Help documentation could be opened and viewed as standard help files, however, with the ability to edit, save, upload if they would like to contribute

Perhaps it might offer the ability to search documentation topics for those who wish to contribute to particular areas.

Edited documentation could then be directly upload to the documentation team for review, approval etc.

I am no programmer or developer, but I would like to contribute and I think an app such as the one I have outlined would make it a much simpler process than that presently used.

Let me know what you think and make some suggestions. p.s I have also posted a similar idea on brainstorm. idea #18104

Cheers Mark

I think you are actually thinking of the Wiki. No need for an app for that. Check it out:

http://help.ubuntu.com/community

smartboyathome said: I think you are actually thinking of the Wiki. No need for an app for that. Check it out:

http://help.ubuntu.com/community

Sorry, maybe I should have been more clear. There is an entire range of offline documentation that ships with Ubuntu that users make use of when looking for help with a program etc, on their actual system. It is that, that I am referring to.

Cheers Mark

Ah, ok. Well, I don't think there is anything like that. Perhaps you should develop it? I think basing it off of something like Zim could be good. :)

It's a good idea, perhaps it should be tied into launchpad much like the translations are done and can be submitted upstream aswell. Editing locally isn't really necessary and it would probably be better to have it centralized with options for reviews, version control, etc.