Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Dash search data and Chapter 2

2012-10-02 Thread Jim Connett
Ok...got a informative reply from Didier last night. He was very detailed in his explanation and very empathetic at the frustration this last minute change had caused the documentation community. The external search results will be OPT-OUT, meaning search results will be ON by default. The reason

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Dash search data and Chapter 2

2012-10-01 Thread Kevin Godby
Hey, Jim. On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Jim Connett wrote: > That said, there has to be some credible/substantive information available > somewhere telling us what user options will be available to control the > Dash's scope (including screenshots?). Maybe someone has a source for this > inform

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Dash search data and Chapter 2

2012-10-01 Thread Jim Connett
I wouldn't suggest delaying a deadline for this information. My original request for a day-or-two was given under the assumption we had scheduled a bit of time between the release of 12.10 and the release of our manual. I'm very much in favor of our manual's release coinciding with the release of 1

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Dash search data and Chapter 2

2012-10-01 Thread c7p
I think we can modify the release date for this purpose. We can follow the schedule as it is now (Kevin posted before), and make an exception only for Jim's section (extend the editing phase till is needed) that unfortunately is still affected from changes made from Ubuntu dev team. What do you t

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Dash search data and Chapter 2

2012-09-30 Thread Jim Connett
Ok...thanks for this feedback (and the schedule). I was unaware that we were targeting the release of this manual to coincide with the release of the software...a good thing for sure. I just finished editing the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, and in reviewing some of the summaries and article links, th

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Dash search data and Chapter 2

2012-09-30 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Jim. Unfortunately, I don't have any answers for you on the state of the Dash search results. Hopefully we'll here something solid soon. As to the schedule for the manual, this is what I had outlined at the beginning of the cycle: Authoring phase (now – 17 Sep): * Changes to the second ed

[Ubuntu-manual] Dash search data and Chapter 2

2012-09-30 Thread Jim Connett
Well, I was hoping that the discussions this weekend would lead me to be able to land on a definitive statement in Chapter 2 regarding the "querying" of Dash search data in both local (computer) as well as remote ( amazon.com) sources. Unless I've really missed the conversation, it seems to still b