Ubuntu Help Center and Mallard items

[Kyle Nitzsche]

Phil Bull wrote:
> Hi Kyle,
>
> On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 15:38 -0500, Kyle Nitzsche wrote:
>   
>> Customization:
>>  * Look towards decoupling monolithic help content into sub packages to 
>> facilitate customization for Ubuntu variants
>>     
>
> Just to pick up on this: How do you see the help packages being
> split-up, and how would that facilitate customisation? I'm thinking that
> variants would end up making changes to most topics, so would have to
> patch most packages anyway.
>
>   
There are lots of ways this could be done, but I'd propose starting with 
separately packaging two topics:
 * New To Ubuntu (because this is a prime opportunity for customization 
for a particular Ubuntu Variant/OEM client project to include welcome 
messages and points of particular interest since it can be displayed at 
first boot. The ability to do this without forking ubuntu-docs would be 
great.)
 * Ubuntu One client content Matt G has just mentioned (because some 
Ubuntu variants/OEM projects may not expose Ubuntu Help Center since the 
UI is somewhat different, but the Ubuntu One client will probably still 
be installed, so a way to provide this help content without undue 
difficulty would be great.)

Cheers,
Kyle
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
>
>