Proposal: Create product for each derivative's documentation

[Matthew East]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Cody A.W. Somerville
<cody-somerville at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Ubuntu documentation bugs are not relevant
> to me and I do not want to receive them but I do want to continue to receive
> bugs concerning the Xubuntu documentation.

Here's how I feel about this. I think that those people who are
granted entry to the ubuntu-core-doc group and hence the rights to
commit to each of our branches (for all derivatives) should be willing
to receive (and fix) documentation bugs for all of those packages. In
particular, it's not always clear when a particular bug affects one
derivative only or more than one. In such cases we need people
interested in all derivatives to review the bugs and triage them
appropriately. Obviously, people will have their particular interests,
but to me that doesn't affect the basic principle.

Having said that, I don't think that it's necessary for everyone in
the non-core documentation teams (listed here -
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-doc/+members) to be willing to receive
that bugmail. If people or teams from those groups are interested,
they can subscribe to receive such bugs on an individual or team
basis. For example, then the xubuntu-docs group could subscribe to
xubuntu-docs bugs only.

So I'd be prepared to change the bug contact for any of our bugs to
ubuntu-core-doc.

Since you're a member of ubuntu-core-doc, then that wouldn't help your
individual case. But I do think that if you want to continue in that
group, you should be prepared to receive bugmail for all projects, for
the reasons given above.

I'll comment on your individual proposals in turn.

> Disable bug reporting on the ubuntu-doc project

This will leave no place for reporting bugs on the website only or wiki...

> Rename project from Ubuntu Documentation to Ubuntu Documentation Project

Sounds fine to me.

> Update the description of the project to to give a clear definition of the
> project, emphasizing that the project is Ubuntu derivative agnostic.

I think that is already clear: "Ubuntu documentation is made up of the
onboard system documentation (shipped with Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu
and Xubuntu, and the online documentation site
<https://help.ubuntu.com> (including the community maintained wiki)."

> Modify the bug contacts for the ubuntu-docs, kubuntu-docs, xubuntu-docs,
> etc. etc. packages to only have the appropriate sub-team subscribed.

See my general comments above.

> Brainstorm other ways in which the different sub-teams can work together.

Always happy to do that!

-- 
Matthew East
http://www.mdke.org
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