Great news on Release Schedule

[Robert Stoffers]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:06 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 20:17 -0400, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> > I hadn't seen this (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperReleaseSchedule) until
> > Mark Shuttleworth sent out his email tonight.
> > 
> > I love this part:
> > 	"Documentation and Translation
> > 		We will introduce a freeze date for changes to menu structures,
> > application menus, 			and (broadly) application strings, to allow for the
> > maximum coverage of our 				translation teams. In addition, we will freeze
> > core documentation to allow for the 			translation of the documentation
> > itself. "
> 
> I've made a suggestion about this which attempts to learn some of the
> lessons from Breezy, regarding quality control and error correction.
> 
> I've written:
> 
> <quote from page>
> I think we should have a dual document freeze: Breezy taught us that
> lots of errors in the documentation got picked up after document freeze
> and this left us either correcting them and reuploading for translation
> and/or not correcting them at all. Therefore I would propose that the
> document string freeze is made slightly earlier, allowing for a period
> of proper review, followed (1 week, 2 weeks?) by a full freeze after
> which NO further changes can be made and documents to go for
> translation.
> </quote>
> 
> Thoughts here?

Matt,

I think we should also open the review to people outside the docteam as
well, to let people read through the documents without regard for the
technical aspect of them (the xml). Most of our errors were picked up by
users, despite there being enough time for these errors to be picked up
by docteam members, who were more concerned with changing things how
they thought they should be (like removing/adding things) rather then
reviewing and making suggestions on whats there. 

Doing so would be simple, we can use doc.ubuntu.com for this purpose,
and announce it on the fridge/forums. This would also help gain more
publicity and promote more widespread use of our documents within the
Ubuntu community, such as those users that use the #ubuntu IRC channel
and the forums.

Regards,

-- 
Robert Stoffers
Author/Maintainer - Ubuntu FAQ Guide
Email - rstoffers at gmail.com