FW: When is Ubuntu-help used and when is GNOME-help used?

[Jeremy Bicha]

On 12 September 2013 10:14, Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net> wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> I thought you were still on the ubuntu-doc e-mail list, but I can not find
> your name there, so forward this e-mail. Also there was this reply from
> Matt:

Yes, I'm not subscribed (so please approve this email) because I will
be leaving the Ubuntu community very soon and needed to turn over some
of my responsibilities early so that routine things wouldn't be
dependent on me.

> <if:choose>
>
>   <if:when test="platform:unity">

Those conditional platform:unity statements were because I attempted
to upstream many of the minor ubuntu-docs differences to GNOME. I only
pushed those changes to git:gnome-user-docs after asking first and
making sure there weren't objections. However, those changes were
reverted a bit later (without discussing it with me or even mentioning
it to me). I disagreed with that action.

On the other hand, the Mallard format currently doesn't allow for
conditionals for many elements (titles, pictures, etc.) so currently
it would be impossible to fully get rid of a separate ubuntu-docs but
many pages (like the Bluetooth pages) could have been fully merged.

You are right that unless those conditional statements are upstreamed,
they're just more of a pain and can be removed.

Ideally, when you guys get time, you can use the meld app to rebase
ubuntu-docs against gnome-user-docs. Except for sticking with
gnome-control-center 3.6, Ubuntu 13.10 uses GNOME 3.8 so you probably
want to use the gnome-3-8 branch.

Jeremy