Documentation Stable Release Updates

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Jan 13, 2008 6:10 AM, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Jan 12, 2008 12:51 PM, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here are a few proposals:
>
> Thanks for these. Ok, first of all it's key for me that any proposal
> needs to factor in the chance for translators to have a chance to
> update the translations of the documentation whenever a string change
> occurs. That's doable - we just need to include the requirement for
> the translators to be notified in good time of an update to the
> documentation before it happens and ensure that the new string is in
> Rosetta.
>
> For that reason alone I think I prefer your first suggestion of a
> fixed schedule "documentation service pack" about 3 months after the
> release because this gives the necessary structure. However, you're
> right that it's a reasonable amount of work in circumstances where the
> docteam doesn't really have that many substantive contributors. But,
> we can give it a try.
>
> I'm not keen on only updating the website, I think that if we're going
> to go to the effort, we might as well go the whole way.
>
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I agree on this, we could use some of the people who are working on becoming
full time members to update this documentation.  It would provide a great
getting started with the doc team task (if they want to)
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