Re: Gnome and Ubuntu UGs (Was: string freeze?)

[Matthew East <mdke ubuntu com>]

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Hi,

Can people stop sending me list email privately too? I'm following the list.

* karderio:
> > Hi :o)
> >
> > On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 14:16 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
>> >> Just to return to my original question briefly, what would be
>> >> (approximately) a good time to do the fork that I've mentioned above?
>> >> I.e. when will the doc be relatively stable?
> >
> > I think that *never* would be a good time to fork our documentation, of
> > course you can do what you like.

You're just scared of the word "fork", it's not nearly such a bad thing
as you think (see below).

> > I've restated my question about why you should wish to fork our
> > documentation (in my previous mail), it still seems that to me that the
> > best solution would be for us to work together. I personally would be
> > very happy to try to make the documentation better in Ubuntu.

It's not really a question of working together or apart. In the next
version of Ubuntu, we want to present separate topics to make the
material more navigable, and simply plumping the Gnome User Guide in as
one of these will not work: the User Guide tries to be a "complete"
guide to Gnome.

However, individual chapters of the Gnome User Guide can fit it well, so
 we plan to simply select the appropriate chapters, and use them as
topics. There is no point in us redoing material if it is present in a
similar form in the Gnome documentation.

> > Matt, if you change the GUG to fit in with your docs, I'm guessing you
> > would have to redo the changes anyway when GUG is updated. What
> > advantage would a string freeze give you, other than assuring the Ubuntu
> > docs are no more out of date than anybody else's ?

I don't really understand this question - the idea is to use a document,
and I'd rather use it after bugs have been fixed than before, depending
on when that stage is reached.

Matt

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