Getting started documentation is not very searchable

[zpletan]

Launchpad r11641
The documentation, both on the +new-recipe page and on https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/SourceBuilds/Recipes, does not give a wanna-be packager (such as myself) enough information to get started. Coming at this from the perspective of a total noob, I don't know:
a) What /exactly/ does build daily do? Does it build it daily, period? Does it check every day for new revisions and if it finds them, builds it? What if I don't check it? Will it only build on new revisions if I don't check the box, or does not checking the box mean I need to run the recipe manually?
b) What is a daily build archive and why can't I write a recipe without one?
c) What is a default distribution series and why can't I write a recipe without one?

The actual recipe text format is very well documented, but the recipe process is not so well explained.

[zpletan (zpletan)]

OK - I found some great documentation via Google @ https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/SourceBuilds/GettingStarted . The problem is that if one goes to help.launchpad.net and searches for recipe, one gets the SourceBuilds/Recipes page.

[Aaron Bentley (abentley)]

The Getting Started documentation is linked at the top of https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/SourceBuilds/Recipes but perhaps we should put "recipe" in the title so that a title search of "recipe" will find it.