I agree too as translator (Galician). Manual only for LTS is sufficient, and gives a window time for capitalize the effort.
Antón 2010/11/1 Hannie Lafeber-Dumoleyn <lafeber-dumole...@zonnet.nl>: > Let me react on this as a translator (Dutch). I totally agree with your > proposal to release the manual once a year, or even only for the LTS > versions. To us translators every 6 months is also a bit too much. The lucid > version is a very good manual for people who are new to Ubuntu, even if they > are using Maverick at the moment. We are about to release the lucid version > in Dutch (waiting for the quickshot server to work again). > Regards, > Hannie Dumoleyn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Benjamin Humphrey" <humphre...@gmail.com> > To: "Manual mailing list" <ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net> > Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 10:50 PM > Subject: [Ubuntu-manual] Releasing manuals less often, ditching translations > > >> 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 > > > -- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. > We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. > SPAMfighter has removed 175 of my spam emails to date. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > The Professional version does not have this message > > > > > -- > ubuntu-translators mailing list > ubuntu-translat...@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators > -- Leader of openOffice.org GL http://gl.openoffice.org _______________________________________________ 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
