Next Doc team meeting: Aug 6

[Peter Matulis]

On 08/08/2014 10:01 AM, Doug Smythies wrote:
> On 2104.08.07 12:46 Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>>> On 2014-08-07 20:39, Peter Matulis wrote:

>> Peter: What problem is it you are trying to address?

> Yes, I am confused also.

My proposal is based on the following presumption:

"People interested in helping with Ubuntu documentation should not have
as an extra requirement a knowledge of website themes, formats, and
display."

The fact that only one, or maybe no one based on the below comment,
knows much about the above is a SPF (single point of failure).  That is,
if that individual leaves the team there is no one to do this work.
Decisions should be made from a team perspective and not from
individualistic ones.  We were severely bit by this mentality when some
very active members left the team a few years ago.

> Even though I have made several fixes, I am not particularly
knowledgeable about
> the new theme (the red one), nor should I be the preferred maintainer.

I singled you out because I thought you were knowledgeable.

Any team member can do any work but theming/display work should not be a
requirement of the Documentation team.  If we cannot get it done after a
few weeks we'll get the help we need (Canonical).

/pm