What are we doing wrong?

[Matthew East]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Kyle Nitzsche
<kyle.nitzsche at canonical.com> wrote:
> Matthew: did you check the prototype? Please do: it is a serious prototype

Of course I did! I don't think it can simply be lifted into a
newtoubuntu document but it certainly gives us ideas.

> Yes, this sort of thing it could certainly be part of ubuntu-docs and be
> launched on first-use start-up: those goals are not contradictory.
>
> But if the Getting Started topic is folded into ubuntu-docs, that means I
> face more difficult options when reaching a solution with OEM clients.

Do they not ship ubuntu-docs? Anyway, my suggestion wasn't really to
try to replace the work that you are doing, just to use it. You could
still ship your solution with OEM clients.

> I think it is time to take seriously the idea that the ubuntu-docs team
> manage multiple sub-packages of ubuntu-docs. I am not saying this is
> trivial, nor that it should be done without planning. But I don't think it
> is  *that* difficult. Each could get a launchpad project.

This is a rather drastic proposal and one that I haven't heard before.
We can discuss it but I think it warrants a separate thread because
how we manage the package and our branches really has nothing to do
with what we are presenting users. It would require a complete
overhaul to our current working processes. I'll have a more detailed
think about some of your justifications and repost to a new thread.

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Matthew East
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