Help with integrating Gnome docs into Ubuntu

[Matthew East]

Daniel/Seb,

Looks like the Gnome team doesn't have any ideas about the below email -
did you guys have any thoughts?

Matt

* Matthew East:
> Hi there,
> 
> To: Gnome doc lists
> Cc: Ubuntu Gnome maintainers, Ubuntu doc list
> 
> I'm looking for some advice.
> 
> In Ubuntu, during the last release we incorporated the Gnome user guide
> into the structure of our documentation. This has the advantage that we
> don't have to worry about recreating the wheel and can use the excellent
> material from upstream.
> 
> The basic problem we are having though is that Ubuntu customises quite a
> lot of Gnome, and as a result the Gnome documentation is wrong, and we
> need to correct it. An example is the layout of the System menu, which
> in Ubuntu does not contain the screenshot/lockscreen buttons, but which
> are part of vanilla Gnome and therefore documented in the Gnome user guide.
> 
> The two possible ways of correcting these are:
> 
> 1. Creating patches on the Gnome documentation in the Ubuntu packages of
> gnome-user-docs.
> 2. Creating a separate tree with a copy of the Gnome documentation (to
> be updated from time to time) and shipping it separately in a new
> package, or with the Ubuntu-specific documentation.
> 
> Both of these strike me as being quite difficult to maintain. I've never
> tried to maintain patches on documentation before but I bet it's pretty
> difficult.
> 
> Read more about the problem here:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2007-June/008624.html
> 
> I'd very much appreciate your advice.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Matt
> 
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