What are we doing wrong?

[Kyle Nitzsche]

Matthew East wrote:
> 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? 
Some did not because some of the content is not applicable, even though 
a lot is.
> 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.
>   
Yes, but a generic solution at the ubuntu level is best :)
>   
>> 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 
cool

> 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.
>
>   
thank you.