*Hi Ben,* Seems good but its kind of disappointing not releasing the Mnual every 6 months. We can also keep a copy that can be read (without download) online, using the "Google translator<http://translate.google.com/about/intl/en_ALL/tour.html#professional>" widget, readers can change the language. Instead of killing translation for the Manual.
Jason Odoom www.google.com/profiles/jasonodoom On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Benjamin Humphrey <humphre...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hey guys, > > I don't have much time to write a lengthy email so this is going to be > to the point. As everyone will know, the last 4 months in this team > have been terrible - we've been getting nothing done, the manual for > Maverick is still not out and we're not moving forward. This is > combination of a few things, myself and a lot of the core contributors > have been extremely busy in the second half of 2010, we've been > pushing hard for the Lucid manual and some of us might be a bit burnt > out, our barrier for new contributors is way too high and the demand > for a new manual every 6 months, plus translations and screenshots is > just too much for the team to handle without full time contributors. > > Rather than see the team disintegrate, which would be terrible, I > figure we need to slim our goals down a bit and perhaps give us a > greater time span to work in. Hence I propose one (or both) of the > following: > > * Not releasing the manual for every release, but perhaps only .04 > releases (yearly) or only LTS releases (every two years). > * Releasing only in English, at least until we have a better > infrastructure for translations > > My preference would be the first option. I feel that it's not > necessary for us to have a new manual every 6 months, what with the > large amount of documentation and support elsewhere and the fact that > not enough changes every six months to justify a new book. I think > that having our material in other languages is important, but it's > difficult to coordinate such a mammoth task when we have very limited > infrastructure for translation this amount of text. > > I believe if we toned down our lofty release goals, we'll have more > time to work on things like the Support and Learning Center, the > personas, quickstart booklets and other things, giving us a better, > more complete and concise product overall, even if it was released > less regularly. > > Please let me know your thoughts. We should also have a meeting soon. > > -- > Benjamin Humphrey > interesting.co.nz > ohso.co > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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