Harnassing the Gnome User Guide for our document

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="matthew.east.ubuntu at breathe.com">

> >On th eplus side vendor drops will accelerate our ability to build
> >documents by repurposing upstream content. On the downside, it adds a
> >level of complexity that may increase the barrier to entry for new
> >people.
> 
> Yeah again the entry question is what would concern me here. I would tend
> to copy and paste as far as the gnome docs are concerned: as Corey and
> Sean (Q) have said, they are out of date, so it will be question of
> carefully selecting which bits are useful, and probably doing some
> corrections to make sure the docs are up to date with gnome 2.12. 

They're not wildly out of date, they just need a fair bit of love. It may be
a bit too soon for tackling this sort of stuff - all the pieces to make it
much easier in the future are falling into place at the moment (baz imports,
soyuz, etc).

A worthwhile exercise would be to take the current userguide, and write down
what you'd add/remove/modify in it to make it fit in with Ubuntu's goals. It
might be good to do the same thing with a common application. If we have a
wiki page documenting that, we'll have a much better *practical* idea of how
we want to go about custom changes. :-)

- Jeff

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