One set of documentation needs to go

[Kevin Godby]

Hello, Jonathan.

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Jonathan Aquilina
<eagles051387 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I dont know why the official documentation cannot be
> updated what if a mistake is found for a released version?

The primary difficulty in updating the official (system/desktop)
documentation after it's been released is that it breaks the string
freeze.

The documentation is frozen (string freeze) during the final stages of
the Ubuntu release cycle. This is done so that the translators have a
non-moving target to work from. Their translations must be completed
prior to the language-pack translation deadline so that the
translations may be packaged for inclusion in the final Ubuntu ISO
image.

After Ubuntu has been released, we can then make modifications again,
but translations are still an issue.  If we modify the
original/untranslated text, then the translation system won't be able
to match it with the translated text. The result of this is that some
of the previously translated documentation may no longer be
translated—that is, until those translations are updated.

So while it's relatively easy to update the English documentation, it
has knock-on effects for all the translations.

—Kevin