Documentation Stable Release Updates

[Matthew East]

Hi,

On Jan 20, 2008 1:43 PM, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 11:10 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> > 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.

{snip}

> I'd like to move ahead with this. Would you like me to contact the
> release team and ubuntu-translators to get their input?

As long as we are staying within the existing release schedule (which
as I under the idea, we are) then there shouldn't be a need to get
clearance. Let's draw up a wiki page and set out the details of the
idea. Then we can refine it and perhaps implement it for hardy.

> > 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.
>
> I agree. What is currently involved in updating the website?

It involves rebuilding the documents for a particular release and then
asking the webmaster to upload them. It's more difficult for the first
update of the website for each release, because that involves
rebuilding every release with new tabs... A website update shouldn't
be much more effort than updating the package really.

-- 
Matthew East
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