ubuntu-docs or gnome-user-docs for Ubuntu 17.10?

[Doug Smythies]

On 2017.04.21 21:02 Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>
> I'm sure you've heard that Ubuntu will be switching its default
> interface from Unity to GNOME. The Ubuntu Desktop's team aims to have
> a basic gnome-shell session in place before Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful"
> Alpha 2 which is currently scheduled for late July. [1]

I do not understand. There has always been a GNOME option,
So why would it be any different now? Wouldn't that just
become the main login option?

I have GNOME as a login option on my 17.04 desktop (VM), although
today it doesn't seem to behave the way I recall.

I am used to some grey type theme with droplets of water that
look like a foot print. Today, that isn't what I am getting. I seem
to now get some Ubuntu looking desktop.

I have these options:

GNOME; GNOME Classic; GNOME on Wayland; Ubuntu (default); Unity8

Where I can not tell the difference between GNOME and GNOME Classic,
and GNOME on Wayland doesn't work.
 
>
> Mark Shuttleworth's vision is for Ubuntu to ship GNOME with minimal
> customization but it's not clear what that will look like exactly yet.
> 
> On first login, Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 and 17.04 uses GNOME's Initial
> Setup tool which asks a few setup questions and then displays the
> GNOME help. It's an interesting idea so maybe Ubuntu will keep it.
>
> For 17.10, especially for the Alphas, I'd like to propose that we
> replace ubuntu-docs with gnome-user-docs in main and only install
> gnome-user-docs by default. That still allows several months to
> customize the help if desired before 18.04 LTS.
>
> What do you think of this proposal?

Well, yes. I don't see another path for proceeding.
But why customize the gnome-user-docs at all?
Why not set the objective of using them as is?

>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule