Re: user docs release?

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

The problem is, none of the stuff in gnome-user-docs was  updated for
2.0. The Users Guide is being rewritten by Sun guys;  afaik, a version
of Sun's UG  for 1.4 is ready (it is not the same as waht we used for
1.4) but  updating it for 2.0  is not complete yet. Other docs (intro to
gnome, unix-primer, glossary) were not updated at all - this is mostly
my fault, as I was maintaining them. But I am afraid I can't really
maintain them at the moment - for various personal reasons. 

Unix-primer actually needs no updating (other than sgml->xml conversion)
and I think it is still relevant, so it should probably be included. As
for other docs, unless someone volunteers to do a quick update, we have
a choice of 

 a. shipping 1.4 docs with GNOME 2.0 - and fix it by 2.01 release
 b. removing old docs and ship without them 

I'd probably vote for a. - but replacing the version of the UG we had
for 1.4 by Sun's UG, even if it is not fully updated for 2.0.

Sasha

On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 13:46, Chris Lyttle wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > Has anyone stepped up for active maintenance of the user docs package yet?
> > We really need an unbroken release of that for RC1. Sander can always do it
> > again if we can't find anyone, we just have to make sure it's installable on
> > all platforms.
> > 
> 
> Seen as how I was maintaining the UG before sun took over I could do this, 
> tho admittedly I only have a pretty basic understanding of how the auto* 
> stuff works (enough not to break it usually). It'd be nice to get some 
> ideas from the gnome-docs-list tho what things in this module are still 
> useful and what we can remove.
> 
> Chris
>