Ubuntu Drupal

[Matthew East]

Hi,

2009/3/17 Adam Sommer <asommer70 at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Dougie Richardson
> <ddrichardson at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> I've been tinkering with Ubuntu Drupal solution
>> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDrupal) and was wondering if we should
>> adopt a CMS for HUC (the frontpage for which Matthew and I have been
>> bouncing some ideas).

{snip}

>> Just throwing it out there, what do others think? There's no doubt
>> some massive, obvious oversight here on my part.
>
>
> I think it's a good idea.

I don't agree. Our toolchain is not currenty cut out to produce
documentation that can easily be put into a drupal database, and
constructing such a toolchain would be a huge amount of work for very
little benefit as far as I can see. I think using a CMS is a very
large tool for a very small problem, if indeed there is a problem at
all.

> Potentially it could allow bug fixes (typos,
> spelling errors, incorrect commands, etc) be fixed on the site if not in the
> package itself.  That may add an additional burden and may not be worth the
> effort, but just a thought I had.

For the last release cycle or so we have already been in a position to
push bugfixes to the website, I do it fairly regularly for bugs that
merit rebuilding the website. A list of recent changes to the website
is in the revision history for the bzr branch that the website is
synched from:

https://code.launchpad.net/~mdke/ubuntu-doc/help.ubuntu.com

Updates to that branch automatically go through to the website.

Conceivably we could make it possible for more people to commit to
that branch, but since I've always been the person building the
documents and am familiar with the various scripts used, it's just me
doing it at the moment.

As for the suggestion that we could fix bugs on the website that
aren't fixed in the packages we ship, I think that's a dangerous road
to go down - once you do that you need to keep track carefully of what
has been fixed in which place, and the documentation may start to
diverge or be inconsistent. I think that if a bug is serious enough to
warrant a fix being pushed to the website, it's serious enough to
warrant the package being fixed as well.

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