Hello, Patrick. On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Patrick Dickey <pdickeyb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Was anyone from the Ubuntu Documentation team in the summit meeting?
Unless they were watching in the IRC channel, I'm not aware of any docs team members who attended. > My three questions were aimed at the Documentation team, as I think that > we could adopt some of their methods to reduce the lag time between when > a version of Ubuntu is released and when our manual is released. > > If nothing else, once the feature freeze is in effect, we could start > writing our chapters (and only have to modify them as we get closer to > the release date--if something changes). Then we could do the > screenshots on the last beta/release candidate (or on the actual > release) and have the manual out within weeks--as opposed to months. I think the primary setback for the Natty manual (which became the Oneiric manual) was all the rewrites that needed to be done to incorporate the new Unity interface. I suspect that publishing Precise will take much less time. I allowed for a bit more time during the authoring period (about a month) so we could get ourselves organized again. Going forward, I think we should be more proactive in monitoring the changes made to Ubuntu so we know what will need to be rewritten in the manual. I also think that having regular meetings and maintaining contact with our team members will help keep everyone involved. We could do most of the writing prior to the UI freeze for Quantal and quickly take the screenshots after the UI freeze. --Kevin _______________________________________________ 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
