Micro Manuals

Concise, step by step instructions for getting a particular service up and running, and including details like the Ubuntu version and the version of the software that was used, and additional additional background references.

The aim of the manuals would be to capture the significant details to allow a suitable competent system administrator to know exactly how a system had been configured, should the service need to be upgraded or changed.

After following the instructions, the administrator should have a system which has some service or feature now set up in a completely known state.

In addition, it would inform package maintainers, exactly how their software is being installed and used, and allow them to upgrade their software or packaging to minimise the amount of additional configuration required (eg. sensible defaults and minimum required configuration parameters.)