Proposal: Create product for each derivative's documentation

[Matthew East]

Hi Matthew,

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> Matthew East wrote on 22/03/08 10:06:
>  >...
>
> > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Cody A.W. Somerville
>  >...
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> >> Currently there is only the ubuntu-documentation product/project on
>  >> launchpad which has the ubuntu documentation and its derivatives'
>  >> bazaar branch associated with it. However, I'd like to propose that
>  >> we create a product for each derivative's documentation since a the
>  >> current model does not scale well attempting to have multiple
>  >> products inside one product.
>  >...
>
> > I've been thinking about this for a while. I'm pretty concerned with
>  > the idea about creating too much divergence between the various
>  > *buntu-docs projects.
>  >...
>
>  An alternative model would be to have separate *branches* of the same
>  ubuntu-doc project for each derivative. Then each derivative can diverge
>  on the things it makes sense to diverge on (e.g. the front page), while
>  merging from each other on changes to things that they share.

We started doing that when we moved to bzr -
https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu-doc/+branches. However what Cody is
worried about is the fact that it's not possible to mark each of these
as the "official" branch for a particular release series, and hence
link it with an Ubuntu package - https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu-doc

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Matthew East
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